10 Plaid engineering leaders

Experience: Head of Engineering, Payments · Plaid

Head of Engineering, Payments at Plaid since March 2020, a role the profile describes as leading engineering across the Payments organization, spanning product, infrastructure and ML. Prior roles include Engineering Manager at Airbnb (2019–2020) and Engineering Manager at Facebook (2017–2019).

Experience: Director of Engineering · Plaid

Director of Engineering at Plaid since December 2021, a role the profile describes as leading 60 full-stack engineers across eight teams who own Plaid's 12K bank integrations and Open Finance products. Prior roles include Engineering Manager at Meta (2017–2021) and Software Engineer at Meta (2013–2017).

Experience: Head of Platform Engineering · Plaid

Head of Platform Engineering at Plaid since January 2024, leading the Platform Engineering teams and supporting Plaid Engineering as an Eng Staff member, per the profile. Earlier roles include Engineering Lead, Product & Data Platform at Plaid (2021–2024) and Head of Engineering, Payments Risk and Modeling at Airbnb (2020–2021).

Experience: CTO of Cognito · Plaid

CTO of Cognito at Plaid since January 2022, a role the profile lists in Plaid's engineering department at C-level, and the profile headline reads Fraud Engineering Lead at Plaid. The profile also shows a Co-Founder, CTO row at Cognito from 2013, and an earlier role as Technical Lead at Bloom Protocol (2017–2018).

Experience: Head of Data Engineering · Plaid

Head of Data Engineering at Plaid since April 2025, a role the profile lists in Plaid's engineering department at head level. Prior roles include Director, Data Engineering at Lacework (2023–2024), Manager, Data Engineering Principal Data Engineer at Lacework (2022–2023) and Senior Principal Data Engineer at Netflix (2015–2021).

Experience: Director of Engineering · Plaid

Former Director of Engineering at Plaid (2020–2022), after serving there as Senior Engineering Manager (2019–2020) and Engineering Manager Site Lead (2018–2019). Later roles include Engineering Lead at Cash App (2022–2025) and Director of Engineering at Cherry since December 2025.

Experience: Head of Engineering, Connectivity · Plaid

Former Head of Engineering, Connectivity at Plaid (2023–2024), with later Plaid roles as Head of Network Enablement and Access (2024) and Head of Product Engineering since November 2024. Lou Kosak was also an Engineering Lead at Plaid (2019–2023) and an Engineering Manager at Airbnb (2015–2018).

Experience: Director of Engineering · Plaid

Director of Engineering at Plaid since May 2026, a role the profile lists in the engineering department at director level. The profile also shows a Senior Engineering Manager row at Superhuman from 2024 with no end date, plus roles as Senior Engineering Manager at Databricks (2019–2024) and Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft (2017–2019).

Experience: Chief Technology Officer · Plaid

Chief Technology Officer at Plaid since May 2025, responsible for Plaid's technical teams, which the profile lists as Engineering, Data Science, Security, DevOps and Technical Program Management. Prior roles include VP of Engineering at Coinbase (2021–2025), Chief Technology Officer at ASAPP (2019–2021) and Chief Technology Officer at Google Cloud Security (2016–2019).

Experience: Manager of Managers (Director) · Plaid

Former Manager of Managers (Director) at Plaid (2022–2023). Zander Hill's other Plaid roles include Engineering Manager (2021–2022), Technical Lead Manager (2023–2024), Experienced Database Reliability Engineer (2024–2025) and Architecture Lead for Platform since February 2025, described as software architecture lead for the Platform org.