Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Developer Platform space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Guillermo Rauch
CEO & Founder of Vercel
Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He’s the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.
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About Vercel: Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.
John Riccitiello
CEO of Unity Technologies
Since joining Unity as CEO in 2014, John Riccitiello has been a driving force in the successful launch of Unity 5 – the company’s next-generation multiplatform engine and development tools. Previously serving as CEO of Electronic Arts, John played a critical role in the company’s transformation into a mobile, online, and digital gaming leader, with subsequent revenue growth exceeding $1.6 billion during that time. John is also an active private investor, serving on Unity’s board since 2013 as well as Syntertainment, Telltale Games, and a few other higher-ed and non-profit boards. In addition, he was an investor and advisor to Oculus.
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Magnus Kongsli Hillestad
CEO & Co-founder of Sanity
Magnus Kongsli Hillestad is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sanity.
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About Sanity: Sanity is a platform for structured content that lets teams build digital experiences.
Geoff Schmidt
CEO and Co-founder of Apollo
Geoff Schmidt is the CEO and Co-founder at Meteor.
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About Apollo, Meteor Development: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Kwindla Kramer
Co-founder & CEO of Daily.co
Kwindla Hultman Kramer is CEO of Oblong Industries, developer of the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. Oblong was responsible for the gestural interfaces in the film Minority Report, and the company’s current customers and partners include Boeing, GE, Saudi Aramco and others. Kwin’s background is in programming, hardware design, and the development of large-scale systems architectures. Before helping to start Oblong he served as the founding CTO of AllAfrica.com, one of the web’s largest content aggregators and a two-time webby award nominee. Kwin holds degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory and Harvard College and lives in Los Angeles.
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About Daily.co: Daily.co offers video chat as an API.
Dmitry Shapiro
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Koji
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About Koji: Koji is the world’s most powerful link in bio platform, building the app store for the Creator Economy.
Brendan Falk
CEO and Co-Founder of Fig
Brendan Falk is the co-founder and CEO of Fig.
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About Fig: Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Shashank Samant
CEO of GlobalLogic
Since joining GlobalLogic in 2008, Shashank Samant has helped turn the company from a group of bright technology minds working with startups into a global Digital Product Engineering Services leader helping Fortune 500 companies on their innovation agenda. In Shashank’s time as President and CEO of GlobalLogic, the company has experienced explosive growth in size and revenue – all while developing a culture that fosters engaged employees around innovation and client success. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Shashank was President of Ness Technologies, where he founded and built their product engineering services business. Prior to Ness, Shashank managed product engineering for Hewlett-Packard’s Verifone line of business. Furthermore, Shashank was instrumental in establishing IBM’s first Indian engineering lab, thus globalizing its R&D and engineering. Shashank started his career at Citicorp where he was part of the core team that developed the FlexCube banking product that changed retail banking. With a passion for technology and innovation, Shashank is focused on transforming GlobalLogic into a trusted partner for the Fortune 500’s and a trusted employer with a strong culture that evolves as the company grows. Shashank is a frequent speaker on the topics of global innovation and digital disruption. He is also an avid cook and history buff. You can find him dining late at night with the chefs of the hotels where he stays during his travels, or reading in his home library.
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About GlobalLogic, GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Nikil Viswanathan
Co-founder and CEO of Alchemy
Nikil Viswanathan is the Co-founder and CEO at Alchemy.
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About Alchemy: Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Joseph Walla
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloSign
Joseph is the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based startup HelloSign. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph’s first successful product alongside co-founder Neal O’Mara, HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2011 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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About HelloFax, HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Akhil Bhiwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Phyllo
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About Phyllo: APIs to access creator economy platform data
Quinn Slack
CEO of Sourcegraph
Quinn Slack is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sourcegraph.
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About Sourcegraph: Sourcegraph provides universal code search for developers and companies so they can innovate faster and manage billions of lines of code.
Zak Holdsworth
Co-Founder & CEO of Hint Health
Zak Holdsworth is the Co-founder & CEO at Hint Health.
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About Hint Health: Hint Health fixes healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered.
Karri Saarinen
CEO & Co-founder of Linear
Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder & CEO at Linear.
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About Linear: Linear allows users to manage software development and track bugs.
Brian Bell
CEO of Split Software
Brian Bell is the CEO of Split Software.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Anant Bhardwaj
Chief Executive Officer of Instabase
Anant Bhardwaj is the founder & CEO of Instabase. Prior to Instabase, he was a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
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About Instabase: Instabase provides a broad technology platform, and an app store for businesses applications.
Chaoyu Yang
Co-found & CEO of BentoML.ai
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About BentoML.ai: The machine learning model serving platform, from the creators of open-source BentoML.
Adam Smith
Founder, CEO of Kite
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About Kite: Kite augments coding environment with the use of internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning.
Divanny Lamas
CEO of Transposit
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About Sutter Hill Ventures, Transposit: Transposit delivers connected workflow, giving TechOps and SREs visibility, context, and actionability across people, processes, and APIs.
Sol Eun
CEO and Co-Founder of Uiflow
Sol Eun currently works as the Chief Executive Officer and the Co-Founder of Uiflow. He previously worked as Manager, Product Management, Data Discovery Platform at Workday.
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About Uiflow: Uiflow is a no-code platform that allows its users to build production applications using their enterprise data.
Andrew Paradise
CEO & Founder of Skillz
Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Double Picture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group.
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About Skillz: Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
Daniel Bilbao
Co-founder & CEO of Truora
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About Truora: Truora provides fast, innovative, and safe solution in background checks and identity theft detection.
Arjun Ohri
CEO and Co-Founder of Fanrock
Arjun Ohri is the CEO and Founder at FanRock and ShopMessage.
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About Fanrock, ShopMessage: Fanrock is focuses on arming the product creators of the world with the tools they need to reach the right audience and drive sales.
Naveen Jain
CEO of Sparkart
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About Sparkart, Sparkart, Tari Labs: Sparkart is a digital agency developing websites and interfaces.
Eric Simons
CEO of StackBlitz
Eric Simons is Founder at Songhop.
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About ClassConnect, Songhop, StackBlitz: StackBlitz is a developer of an integrated software used to offer comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
Gal Zabib
Founder and CEO of Altostra
Gal Zabib, Founder & CEO at Altostra.
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About Altostra: No-Code infrastructure platform for developers
Matt Casamassina
Co-founder & CEO of Rogue Games
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About Rogue Games: Rogue Games is a subscription games (Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass) and cross-platform digital games publisher (mobile, console, PC).
Brian Leonard
CEO of Grouparoo
Brian Leonard is the Co-Founder and CEO at Grouparoo
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About Grouparoo, TaskRabbit: Open source customer data framework built to easily sync data from your data warehouse to all of your 3rd-party tools
April Chang
CEO and Founder of 10by10.io
April Chang is our CEO and Founder. She has over 20 years of software engineering experience, along with a proven track record of leading teams through periods of extraordinary growth. Throughout her career, she has hired hundreds of engineers working with both corporate recruiters and external recruiting agencies.
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About 10by10.io: 10by10 uses AI to quickly match qualified candidates with companies by aggregating data across recruitment agencies.
Avinash Harsh
Co-Founder & CEO of Weavr Inc.
Co-founder & CEO, Weavr Wannabe cartoonist. Patents: System and method for multi-channel delivery of transformed and augmented messages in real-time
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About VDOSH, Weavr Inc.: Weavr is a community-driven knowledge exchange network that brings developers, tech professionals and companies on the same platform.
Elliott Sergeenko
CEO of Geecko
Tech entrepreneur from 2010
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About Geecko: Geecko targets competent developers and challenges them with high-quality programming games. HR marketing targeted for software engineers
Dan Tsui
CEO of Kyokan
In past lives, Dan was a Software Engineer at LePort Labs, where he built internal tools for modern, tech-enabled “smart” Montessori schools. Before starting Kyokan, he was a Senior Software Engineer at BlacklightCMS building rapid domain provisioning and site-building tools for direct response marketers. We’re often hiring and accepting new clients: please direct all business inquiries to [email protected].
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About Kyokan: Making blockchain accessible to everyone on earth.
Ben McGraw
Chairman & CEO of TheraVida
Ben McGraw is Chairman & CEO at TheraVida.
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About Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Auration Biotech, Evommune, TheraVida, Trefoil Therapeutics: TheraVida develops and markets therapeutic products for urological disorders.
Mark Cooke
Founder & CEO of Shiny Shoe
Mark has experience working as a programmer, game designer, and producer. He’s also known for wearing absurdly shiny shoes.
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About Shiny Shoe: Shiny Shoe building competitive multiplayer mobile games. We also like sparkly footwear.
Rush Tehrani
CTO, Co-Founder & CEO of Onepanel
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About Onepanel: The open and extensible integrated development environment (IDE) for computer vision
Jonathan Stambolis
Founder & CEO of Zenysis
Jonathan Stambolis is the Founder & CEO at Zenysis Technologies.
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About Zenysis: Zenysis build the software that governments & international organizations need to confront some of the biggest challenges facing humanity.
Shira Shamban
Co-Founder and CEO of Solvo
Shira Shamban is a security researcher and technical expert with a focus on threat intelligence. Shira started her professional career in cybersecurity as a military officer in the elite intelligence unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Force. During her 13-year service in the unit, Shira acquired hands-on experience in cybersecurity and intelligence operations while earning an engineering degree from Tel-Aviv University. After her military service, Shira turned to security innovation in business. As the Data Initiative Lead at Dome9 Security, Shira is now leading the company’s security research, in order to implement its results in Dome9’s products and by that help organizations embrace the public cloud securely. Shira strongly believes in empowering women in the world of technology. She volunteers as a lecturer and a mentor in forums such as SheCodes and OWASP-WIA.
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About Dome9 Security, Solvo: Solvo allows developers and DevOps to deliver a cloud product with a lease-privileged security configuration.
Paul Nakata
Founder and CEO of A Serious Business
Paul Nakata founded A Serious Business along with Phil Haack in May, 2020.
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About A Serious Business, Abbot: A Serious Business develops software with expertise in ChatOps.
Sujay Karve
Co-Founder & CEO of Simply Compete
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About Simply Compete: Simply Compete is a membership engagement platform for sports organization.
Bryan Costanich
CEO, Cofounder of Wilderness Labs
Bryan Costanich is the Vice President of Education Services at Xamarin and heads up both Xamarin University and the Documentation team. He’s a renowned Software Architect, published author, mobile development expert, and a seasoned entrepreneur. In addition to having published App Store apps, he led the team that built Cricket’s MuveMusic service, which runs on Android and is the largest mobile music subscription service on the planet. When not working in tech, you can find Bryan building robots, monkeying around in Hollywood, or out in the mountains (usually hanging from a cliff).
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About Wilderness Labs: Professional connected things (IoT) development platform
Marek Sadowski
CEO of Robotics Inventions
The founder of the Robotics Inventions; at RI Marek is responsible for business development and overall leadership; he manages investor relationships, answers RFIs and RFPs and supervises RI offerings; previously Marek worked at NASA Ames (Virtual Reality systems to control robots) and at NTT Tokyo Software Laboratories as a research engineer, for more than ten years he has worked at IBM, HP, AMS, and TPSA as an IT architect, Project Manager and salesman; graduated from The International Space University. In the free time Marek is a scuba diver, a snowboarder, a martial arts instructor, and finally a father and a husband.
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About Robotics Inventions: Cutting edge of the emerging automation industry, with leading R&D in artificial intelligence (AI), edge compute and robotic systems.
Vishnu Datla
CEO of AutoRABIT
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About AutoRABIT: AutoRABIT is a provider of the Salesforce release management platform for regulated industries.
Marty Sprinzen
CEO of Vantiq
Marty Sprinzen is a visionary leader and successful software entrepreneur. The organizations he created and led have introduced some of the most innovative software solutions in the areas of systems management, relational databases, internet application development and currently, smart systems. Sprinzen founded and became CEO of Vantiq Corporation. Prior to Vantiq, he was CEO and co-founder of Forte Software, which was acquired for over $1B. He also served as VP of International Operations and VP of Engineering at Ingres and VP of Development at Candle Corporation. He holds a BSEE from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
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About Vantiq: Vantiq is the only fully integrated, edge-native development and deployment platform for distributed, event-driven applications.
Miguel Valdes Faura
Co-Founder & CEO of Bonitasoft
Miguel Valdes Faura is the CEO and co-founder of Bonitasoft. Miguel leads the charge for Bonitasoft’s mission: to unleash the full potential of development teams to create applications with seamless, engaging and personalized user experiences. Miguel is a recognized thought leader in the BPM and digital transformation fields and is passionate about open source community building. He is a regular speaker at international conferences sponsored by O’Reilly, Global Expansion Summit and Web Summit and has been featured in media such as Forbes, CNN and Mashable. Miguel received a prestigious CEO World Award in 2014.
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About Bonitasoft: Fully supports digital operations & IT modernization with Bonita, an open-source & extensible platform for business process automation.
Tatsunori Suzuki
Co-Founder, CEO of Zeptor
Prior to founding Zeptor, Suzuki led the Micro Fuel Cell research project at Intel Corporation. His passion for that project led directly to the formation of Zeptor. Prior to join Intel, Suzuki worked on engine management systems for the automobile industry including the development of a Formula-1 racing engine. From there he branched out into EV research. His goal is to guide the world into a regime of economic and environmental sustainability.
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About Zeptor: Zeptor develops an innovative silicon anode that enables battery makers to produce lithium-ion batteries that exceed 700Wh/L.
Wilhelm Wonigkeit
CEO of Vorteil.io
Proving that solutions and products can always be better! I’m the CEO and co-founder of Vorteil.io, which is completely reinventing the way operating systems are used! I’m driving people, organizations and cultures in IT to question why we do things the same we’ve always done it. I’ve had the pleasure of working for dynamic large enterprises, the knowledge and experience of building a consultancy and professional services business from scratch ( … and from scratch implies that I was the first employee, the first consultant on site … and the only revenue generating member on staff) and now the opportunity to build a software company that will change the way IT operates and consumes resources. I’m never the smartest person in the room, I enjoy listening to people and absorbing everything non-technical and technical around me. I depend on a brilliant team which I trust and who supports me in every step we’ve taken thus far.
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About Vorteil.io: Next generation cloud operating system
Jason French
Founder & CEO of Gameplay.fm
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About Gameplay.fm: Gameplay.fm platform is a revolutionary way for developers and musicians/actors/models to work together.
