Developer tools
10 CTOs in Developer Tools
These ten executives serve as chief technology officers at developer tools companies, including workflow, code review and debugging tools. A reader can learn how CTOs lead technology organizations in developer tools businesses.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anand Das
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder and CTO · Bito
Co-Founder and CTO at Bito since 2021; the headline reads Founder & CTO, Bito | Deep Codebase Context for AI Coding Agents, and the profile says Bito builds codebase intelligence for AI coding. Also Director at Sentrilite since 2025, Advisor at Lemma since 2019 and Board Member at TruckX Inc since 2016.
Ankit Sobti
LinkedInExperience: Founder and CTO · Postman
Founder and CTO at Postman since 2014, and the headline reads Co-Founder, Postman; the profile describes Postman as a leading API platform that helps accelerate API development and streamline collaboration. Former Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo (2009–2011) and at Adobe (2011–2012).
Arpit Mohan
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder, CTO · Appsmith
Co-Founder, CTO at Appsmith since 2019; the profile describes the role as building a global developer-focussed product, and the headline reads Co-founder, CTO at Appsmith. Former Engineering Owner at CultGear (2018–2019), CTO at Mobshow (2017–2018), CTO at Bicycle AI (2016–2017) and Sr. Engineer at Exotel (2015–2016).
Dan Farrelly
LinkedInExperience: CTO Co-founder · Inngest
CTO Co-founder at Inngest since 2022; the profile describes Inngest as the developer platform for easily building reliable workflows with zero infrastructure. Former Chief Technology Officer (2017–2021), Software Architect (2016–2017) and Product Engineering Lead - Full Stack (2014–2016) at Buffer, and Lead Front-end Developer at Slated, Inc. (2012–2014).
James Cowling
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder CTO · Convex
Co-Founder CTO at Convex since 2020; the profile describes Convex as an open-source reactive database for web and mobile apps, and the headline reads Dropbox storage designer and distributed systems researcher at MIT. Former Senior Principal Engineer at Dropbox (2012–2020) and PhD Student and Research Assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005–2012).
Leonid Blouvshtein
LinkedInExperience: Co Founder and CTO · Lightrun
Co Founder and CTO at Lightrun since 2019; the profile says Lightrun bridges the gap between development and production debugging and puts the power back in the hands of developers. The headline cites Forbes 30 under 30. Former Computer Vision & Machine Learning Researcher at ADASKY (2017–2019) and Co Founder and CTO at HommyFood (acquired) (2013–2014).
Max Deichmann
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder & CTO · Langfuse
Co-Founder & CTO at Langfuse since 2022; the profile says Langfuse provides trace, evals, prompt management and metrics to debug and improve LLM applications, and the headline lists langfuse.com (YC W23). Former Software Engineer - Trading at Trade Republic (2020–2022), Software Engineer at XO Life (2019) and iOS Engineer at mydays GmbH (2017).
Nimrod Kor
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder & CTO · Baz
Co-Founder & CTO at Baz since 2023; the profile describes Baz as a company that helps development teams streamline code review with instant insights and suggestions. Former Senior Software Engineering Manager (2020–2023) and Solutions Architect (2019–2020) at Bridgecrew, Backend Developer at Ourcart (2018–2019) and Android Developer at Autodesk (2017–2018).
Peter Gokhshteyn
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder & CTO · Tempo (YC S23)
Co-Founder & CTO at Tempo (YC S23) since 2023; the profile says Tempo generates and edits high-quality react code directly in your codebase so you can ship UIs in minutes, and the headline cites Forbes 30 Under 30. Former Engineering Manager (2021–2023), Senior Software Engineer (2020–2021) and Software Engineer (2017–2020) at Perpetua.
Viren Baraiya
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder & CTO · Orkes
Co-Founder & CTO at Orkes since 2021; the profile says Orkes is on a mission to help developers build resilient, stateful applications in cloud, and the headline names the profile owner as creator of Netflix Conductor. Former Engineering Leader at Google (2018–2022), Engineering Manager (2017–2018) and Senior Software Architect (2015–2017) at Netflix.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which developer workflows your product should own versus integrate with?
- 02How do you balance an open source or free tier with features that teams will pay for?
- 03How do you keep a developer product reliable when it sits in your customers' build or production path?
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