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10 Coinbase engineering leaders
These ten Coinbase engineering leaders include Coinbase's CTO, vice presidents of engineering and senior directors and directors of engineering for infrastructure, AI, wallet, security, staking and exchange teams. A reader can learn how Coinbase builds and runs the systems behind its exchange, wallet and platform products.
Professionals to explore
01—10Bryan Gough
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Software Engineering · Coinbase
Sr. Director of Software Engineering at Coinbase since December 2025, leading the Core Infrastructure software engineering, reliability engineering and observability engineering teams. Bryan Gough was Director of Software Engineering (2023–2026) and Director of Site Reliability Engineering (2021–2023) at Google.
Chintan Turakhia
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Dir. Product Eng for Wallet AI Engineering · Coinbase
Sr. Dir. Product Eng for Wallet AI Engineering at Coinbase since August 2023, leading product engineering for Coinbase Wallet (Base) across iOS, Android, web and browser extension. Chintan Turakhia was also Director Of Engineering at Coinbase (2021–2023) and Director of Engineering - Driver Marketplace ML Systems at Uber (2016–2021).
David Ko
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Coinbase
Vice President of Engineering at Coinbase since August 2026, based in Singapore, with a Senior Director of Engineering role at Coinbase also listed as current since October 2021. David Ko was Co-Founder of Jide Technology (2014–2017) and an Angel Investor & Advisor at Harmony (2018–2022).
Frank R.
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Coinbase
Director of Engineering at Coinbase since August 2024, where the profile says Frank R. led all of engineering for the US Exchange (exchange.coinbase.com). Frank R. also held Coinbase roles as Senior Engineering Manager (2022–2024), Engineering Manager (2019–2022) and Senior Software Engineer (2018–2019).
Krishnan Seshadrinathan
LinkedInExperience: VP, Product Platform, ML, AI · Coinbase
VP, Product Platform, ML, AI at Coinbase since December 2024; the profile describes the role as VP Engineering leading the Product Foundations and AI orgs. Krishnan Seshadrinathan was VP Engineering, Cash App Seattle Site Lead at Square (2021–2024) and Head of Engineering, Lambda Platform at Amazon Web Services (2017–2019).
Muyang Yao
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Coinbase
Director of Engineering at Coinbase since March 2025, leading engineering for the Staking Platform. Muyang Yao was Head of Engineering, Node Services at Alchemy (2023–2025) and also held Coinbase roles as Senior Engineering Manager (2021–2023) and Engineering Manager Staff Software Engineer (2018–2021).
Rajat Goel
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Of Engineering · Coinbase
Vice President Of Engineering at Coinbase since July 2018. Rajat Goel was Sr. Director, Engineering at Docker, Inc (2015–2018), where the profile says Rajat Goel joined to lead enterprise engineering, and Head of Enterprise Engineering at Cloudera (2012–2014).
Rob Witoff
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Coinbase
Chief Technology Officer at Coinbase since July 2026, a C-level engineering role; the profile also lists a Head of Platform role at Coinbase. Rob Witoff was Co-Founder & CEO of Unit 410 (2018–2024), with a Board Member role at Unit 410 since 2024, and Chief Technology Officer at Polychain Capital (2018–2021).
Siwei Shen
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering, AI & Data · Coinbase
VP of Engineering, AI & Data at Coinbase since February 2026, and former Senior Director of Engineering, AI Platform & Blockchain Platform (2022–2026) and Senior Director of Engineering, Platform (2021–2022) at Coinbase. Siwei Shen was Senior Director, Customer Platform Engineering at Lyft (2019–2020).
Suchika Khanna
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Coinbase
Director of Engineering at Coinbase since June 2022, with the profile listing security platform engineering, key management, onchain security, IAM, ITAM, policies and regulatory controls in scope. Suchika Khanna was Engineering Leader, Ecosystem Engineering at Netflix (2021–2022) and Principal Engineering Manager, Gaming at Microsoft (2019–2021).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Coinbase balance shipping speed against security and reliability requirements in its engineering process?
- 02How are Coinbase's platform and infrastructure teams organized relative to its product engineering teams?
- 03What does Coinbase look for when deciding whether to build a system in-house or buy from a vendor?
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