10 former DoorDash trust and safety leaders
These ten people led trust and safety teams or trust and safety work at DoorDash and have since left the company. A reader can learn how trust and safety work was run at a company like DoorDash from people who did it there.
Professionals to explore
Chase Stites
LinkedInExperience: Supervisor, Trust & Safety · DoorDash
Chase Stites is a former Supervisor, Trust & Safety at DoorDash, holding the role from 2022 to 2025, and was Team Lead, Trust & Safety there from 2021 to 2022 and a Team Specialist, Trust & Safety from 2020 to 2021. Chase Stites is based in Goodyear, Arizona.
Eric Swartz
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Fraud Operations · DoorDash
Eric Swartz is a former Senior Manager, Fraud Operations at DoorDash, holding the role from 2023 to 2024, and was Fraud Operations Manager there from 2021 to 2023. Eric Swartz has been Senior Manager, Trust & Risk Operations at Whatnot since 2024 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Gunnar Holmen
LinkedInExperience: Fraud Operations Supervisor · DoorDash
Gunnar Holmen is a former Fraud Operations Supervisor at DoorDash, holding the role from 2021 to 2025, and is based in the Greater Phoenix Area. Gunnar Holmen has been Trust and Risk Team Lead at Whatnot since April 2025, a role the listing tags at Lead level, and was Area Manager at Chewy from 2019 to 2021.
Harsimran Minhas
LinkedInExperience: Strategy & Operations - Manager · DoorDash
Harsimran Minhas is a former Strategy & Operations - Manager at DoorDash, holding the role in 2024, and the profile highlight for that role describes leading fraud detection and prevention strategy for the Dasher platform. Harsimran Minhas has been Senior Product Marketing Manager, WhatsApp at Meta since 2026 and was Program Manager - Product Launch Integrity & Risk there from 2022 to 2023.
Jacob Leal
LinkedInExperience: Supervisor, Trust and Safety · DoorDash
Jacob Leal is a former Supervisor, Trust and Safety at DoorDash, holding the role from 2024 to 2025, and the profile highlight for that role describes guiding team leads who managed high-risk investigations, including identity abuse. Jacob Leal was Senior Safety Investigations Specialist at Uber from 2021 to 2023 and is based in Goodyear, Arizona.
Jerry Ruoti
LinkedInExperience: Director, Head of Trust and Safety · DoorDash
Jerry Ruoti is a former Director, Head of Trust and Safety at DoorDash, holding the role from 2019 to 2023, and was Senior Manager, Head of Trust Program Management at Airbnb from 2017 to 2019. Jerry Ruoti has worked in Global Safety Response Operations at OpenAI since 2025 and was Head of Trust and Safety at Character.ai from 2024 to 2025 and Vice President, Platform Integrity there in 2025.
Joe Mifsud
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Trust & Safety · DoorDash
Joe Mifsud is a former Senior Manager, Trust & Safety at DoorDash, holding the role from 2021 to 2022, and was Senior Manager, Trust & Safety at Patreon in 2023. Joe Mifsud has been Head of Support, Trust & Safety at WorkWhile since 2025, held Senior Manager, Support and Trust & Safety there from 2024 to 2025 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Maggie K.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Trust and Safety Strategy & Operations · DoorDash
Maggie K. is a former Senior Manager, Trust and Safety Strategy & Operations at DoorDash, holding the role from 2021 to 2023, and was Manager, Online Safety at Facebook from 2015 to 2019 and Senior Manager, Online Safety there from 2019 to 2020. Maggie K. has been Director of Community at the Trust & Safety Professional Association since 2023.
Meghan Brady
LinkedInExperience: Trust and Safety Supervisor · DoorDash
Meghan Brady is a former Trust and Safety Supervisor at DoorDash, holding the role from 2021 to 2023, and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Meghan Brady has been Trust and Safety Senior Manager at Shipt since July 2026, was Trust and Safety Manager there from 2023 to 2026 and was Law Enforcement and Civil Process Analyst at Square in 2021.
Mike R.
LinkedInExperience: Team Lead, Community Response (Trust & Safety) · DoorDash
Mike R. is a former Team Lead, Community Response (Trust & Safety) at DoorDash, holding the role from 2022 to 2025, and was a Trust and Safety Specialist and a Dasher Experience Team Lead there from 2019 to 2022. Mike R. has been Policy Specialist, Trust and Safety at Airbnb since 2025.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since trust and safety leadership, strategy and operations, fraud operations and community response roles each saw a different part of the work. Check the years of their DoorDash role and where they work now, because safety and fraud practices change quickly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you split trust and safety work between community response, fraud operations and policy?
- 02Which measures told you whether safety incidents and fraud losses were under control?
- 03What would you set up first for trust and safety at a younger marketplace with a small team?
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