Engineering professionals in Developer tools
Hosted CI, AI coding, observability and SDKs are all represented: the developer tools work in this group includes GitHub Copilot and Codespaces, CircleCI, GitLab, Vercel, BrowserStack, Perforce Software, Microsoft's Azure Developer Platform and VS Code work, and open source cloud tools at Turbot. A call fits decisions on CI and build infrastructure, AI coding features, SDK design or organizing engineering for a developer product.
Professionals to explore
Dom Busser
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Vercel
Leading Observability at Vercel as Director of Engineering since 2022, Dom Busser describes building teams that ship developer infrastructure at scale. Busser was Director of Engineering (2020–2022) and Team Lead Software Engineering (2019–2020) at Joyn GmbH and Head of New Technology & Innovation at ADAC (2018–2019), a fit for observability product questions.
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Jesse Squire
LinkedInExperience: Principal Software Engineering Manager, Azure Developer Platform · Microsoft
Libraries and tools for Azure that look and feel consistent are, in Jesse Squire's description, the team's goal on the Azure Developer Platform at Microsoft, where Squire has been Principal Software Engineering Manager since 2022 and was Senior Software Engineer (2019–2022). Squire also held Microsoft roles in Commercial Software Engineering and at 343 Industries, a fit for SDK design questions.
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Karthik Nadig
LinkedInExperience: Principal Software Engineering Manager · Microsoft
AI developer platforms, evals, AI agents, the VS Code ecosystem and the Python platform are the focus areas Karthik Nadig names as Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft since 2024. Nadig's other Microsoft roles were Principal Software Engineer (2024), Senior Software Engineer (2017–2024), Software Engineer II (2014–2017) and Software Development Engineer (SDE) (2012–2014), a fit for editor tooling questions.
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Michael Stahnke
LinkedInExperience: Former VP of Engineering · CircleCI
CI infrastructure cost is a good topic for Michael Stahnke, who describes scaling teams to 250+ engineers across 9 countries and owning gross margin and a $60M+ budget. Stahnke has been Vice President of Engineering at Fly.io since 2026, was VP of Engineering at CircleCI (2019–2022) and also held Vice President of Engineering at Flox (2023–2026) and Sr Director of Engineering at Perforce Puppet (2018–2019).
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Mohammad Muzammil Ansari
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Software Engineering · Perforce Software
Mohammad Muzammil Ansari has been Senior Director of Software Engineering at Perforce Software since 2025 and was Director of Software Engineering there (2023–2025). Ansari also held Director Of Engineering at NiCE (2022–2023) and Software Engineering Manager at Siemens PLM Software (2006–2022), and describes 25+ years in software engineering with a focus on DevOps.
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Rebecca Miller-Webster
LinkedInExperience: Former Director of Software Engineering - Copilot (AI) Experiences and Codespaces · GitHub
Integrating Codespaces into Copilot is what Rebecca Miller-Webster was brought in to do as Director of Software Engineering - Copilot (AI) Experiences and Codespaces at GitHub (2024–2026). Other GitHub director titles covered Actions Apple Mac Hosted Runners Business (2023–2024) and GitHub Mobile, Desktop, GitHub CLI, npm CLI (2022–2023), and Miller-Webster has been Director of Engineering at Vanta since 2026, a fit for AI coding and hosted runner questions.
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Sachin Jain
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Engineering · BrowserStack
Requestly, which Sachin Jain describes growing from a side project into a devtool used by 300k+ developers, was Jain's company as Co-Founder & CEO (2021–2025), and Jain says BrowserStack acquired it in 2025. Since 2025, Jain has been Director of Product Engineering at BrowserStack; Jain was also Engineering Manager at Blinkit (2019–2021) and writes the aiBytes.io newsletter for developers.
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Sam Goldstein
LinkedInExperience: Former Director Of Engineering · GitLab
Sam Goldstein was Director Of Engineering at GitLab (2020–2026) and has been Chief Technology Officer at Sema since 2026. Goldstein was also VP of Engineering (2018–2020) and Director Of Engineering (2017–2018) at Stackery and Director of Engineering, Infrastructure Platform at New Relic (2015–2017), which fits questions on platform engineering for DevOps products.
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Victor Hadianto
LinkedInExperience: Director Engineering · Turbot
Turbot's open source projects Steampipe, for querying APIs and code with SQL, and Flowpipe, for automating cloud operations, are named by Victor Hadianto, Director Engineering at Turbot since 2017. Hadianto was also Director, Head of MOSS (Market Object and Static Service) Core at Barclays Investment Bank (2015–2017) and Global Head of EPE IT at Credit Suisse (2012–2015).
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Yury Selivanov
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Vercel
Yury Selivanov has been Director of Engineering at Vercel since 2025, working on next generation Python tooling and cloud, and a Core Developer and PSF Fellow at Python Software Foundation since 2013. Selivanov was also Co-founder and CEO of Gel (2019–2025) and MagicStack Inc. (2008–2025), so can speak to Python tooling from the language core, the startup and the platform side.
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Choose the right perspective
For CI and build infrastructure, Michael Stahnke and Sam Goldstein; for AI coding and editor tooling, Rebecca Miller-Webster and Karthik Nadig. Jesse Squire fits SDK and client library design, Yury Selivanov Python tooling and open source, Dom Busser observability, Sachin Jain growing a developer tool from a side project, Victor Hadianto open source cloud tools, and Mohammad Muzammil Ansari DevOps products at Perforce Software.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Which reliability problems in CI runners, build caches or hosted dev environments cause the most developer complaints, and what fixed them?
- 02How do you measure whether an AI coding feature actually saves developers time rather than just getting used?
- 03What tradeoffs come up when an open source developer tool has to support a paid cloud product built on it?
About this directory
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