Founder
After founding Heroku, James established Heavybit as the only community and program to focus solely on developer company go-to-market strategy.
Managing Director
Tom manages Heavybit’s investor and member relations and helps developer companies with go-to-market strategy, fundraising and operations.
General Partner & GM
Dana manages the day-to-day operations of Heavybit’s developer company program, clubhouse, events, content and marketing.
Part-time Partner
Jesse is the creator of Chef, is Amazon’s former “Master of Disaster”, and founded the Velocity Conference where he helped popularize the DevOps movement.
Part-time Partner
Joe co-founded Librato and helped steer the company to a successful acquisition by SolarWinds where he now runs development of multiple SaaS dev products.
Content Marketing Manager
Ted manages Heavybit’s educational content and facilitates knowledge sharing through production of meetups, speaker series, and member-powered podcasts.
PR Manager
Malia leads PR efforts for Heavybit and works closely with our members providing both strategic counsel and tactical support on PR and marketing initiatives.
Vibe & Facilities Manager
Sarah is responsible for Heavybit’s vibrant culture, manages our state-of-the-art clubhouse, and keeps our community meetups and mixers running smoothly.
Director
Peter manages Heavybit’s membership pipeline and is responsible for finding, qualifying, and onboarding the next generation of Heavybit companies.
Marketing Faculty Chair
Nicolas is the VP of Marketing at Twilio. Previously, Nicolas worked at LinkedIn and co-founded Ipanto. He advises on how to reach new markets, promote new product features, build demand engines, and generate awareness.
Sales Faculty Chair
Trenton is Wizeline’s SVP of Sales, Customer Success & Delivery. He was the VP of Worldwide Sales at PagerDuty and has led sales orgs at Appcelerator, EMC, and PTC. He is an expert in designing and executing sales strategies.
Marketing Faculty Chair
Nisha is the former CMO of PagerDuty and VP of Product Marketing at RingCentral. She is now a consulting CMO working with startups to develop go-to-market strategy and build their marketing organizations.
Product Faculty Chair
Cole founded Brace.io and led the company to an acquisition by Squarespace where he now leads the Developer Platform team. He is passionate about design, visualization and user experience.
Baseline Ventures
Steve is the founder of Baseline Ventures with a number of successes as an early-stage investor. Anderson’s existing portfolio companies in the developer marketing include Crashlytics, CircleCI, and Pantheon.
Reed Elsevier Ventures
Tony is a founding partner of Reed Elsevier Ventures and an investor and board member at several big data, infrastructure, and enterprise software companies including SpaceCurve, Netli, and Siperian.
Reed Elsevier Ventures
Kevin is a founding partner of RE Ventures and is an investor in media, cloud and big data companies. Past investments include GigaOM, Inxight, and Palantir.
Apcera
Derek is the founder and CEO of Apcera and has over two decades of large-scale, distributed systems experience. Prior to Apcera, Derek was CTO and Chief Architect at VMware where he architected the CloudFoundry platform.
Ignition Partners
John is a Partner at the early stage venture capital fund, Ignition Partners. He’s an active investor in developer-focused companies and sits on the board of Splunk, Opscode, and Parse. Previously he was on the board of Heroku and Xensource.
Harrison Metal
Michael is the founder of Harrison Metal. He’s an investor in several developer-focused companies including PagerDuty, StackMob, and Recurly and is an expert on productizing emerging technologies, go-to-market, product marketing, & pricing.
IA Ventures
Roger is the founder and managing partner of IA Ventures. Roger is an active seed and early-stage investor since 2004 backing startups including Bitly, Metamarkets, and DataSift.
MemSQL
Eric is co-founder and CEO of MemSQL. Previously he was a Partner Engineer at Facebook and Product Specialist at Marin Software. Eric was named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 list.
Fuel Capital
Chris is the co-founder of Fuel Capital, an early stage venture fund. Previously at Ignition Partners, Chris invested in Parse, Pagerduty, Zencoder, Mashape, WePay, and Hipmunk.
Bessemer Venture Partners
Ethan is a partner at Bessemer Venture Parnters where he leads the developer platforms vertical. His investments include Twilio, Sendgrid, Intercom, Nitrous.io, and npm.
Message Bus
Jeremy is co-founder and CEO of Message Bus. He was previously a co-founder and Operations Manager at Twitter and the Operations Lead at Odeo.
SV Angel
David is a founder and managing partner of SV Angel. Previously he was a founding member of Google’s New Business Development team and led business development at StumbleUpon.
Accel Partners
Ping is a partner at Accel Partners and has over two decades of experience as a technology investor and operating executive. He focuses on cloud computing, networking and security, and is responsible for Accel’s Big Data fund.
Data Collective
Matt is the co-founder of Data Collective. He has backed developer-focused companies such as Couchbase, Cloudability, Appurify, Firebase, MongoHQ, and Parse.
Redpoint Ventures
Scott is a partner at Redpoint Ventures. His expertise in cloud computing and enterprise infrastructure has helped him invest and grow a number of dev-focussed success stories including Heroku, Stripe, and Twilio.
Lowercase Capital
Chris Sacca was an early investor in Twitter. His fund Lowercase Capital has invested in portfolio co’s including Kickstarter, Uber, Lookout, Instagram, Twilio, and Heroku. He’s been named to Forbes’ Midas List.
Fuel Capital
Brad is the co-founder of Fuel Capital and a founding partner of Ignition Partners. He has invested in TellMe, Heroku, Xensource, Sourcelabs, Seven, Skytap, Hipmunk, and Keas.
Salesforce
John is EVP of Corporate Development & Strategy at Salesforce, where he handles mergers, acquisitions, and investments. Previously, he worked at Ingenio and Oracle.
Salesforce
Adam is the current CEO of Heroku and specializes in platform marketing for developers. He’s helped scale and grow world-class developer communities for Personify, Salesforce, and Dropbox.
Heroku
Adam Wiggins is a Heroku co-founder and author of definitive work “The 12 Factor App”. As a product visionary and CTO, he’s been instrumental in shaping the modern development lifecycle and effectively scaling teams.
CoreOS
Alex is responsible for pushing forward the application container industry. He is the CEO of CoreOS, the creator of Tectonic, and many open source projects such as CoreOS Linux, rkt, and etcd.
PagerDuty
Arup is a master at scaling complex architectures and has managed and built operations at Amazon and Netflix. He currently helps improve availability and reliability for his many customers at PagerDuty.
Sumo Logic
Bridget advises members on sales management including go-to-market strategy, recruiting, lead generation, and customer retention. She’s held executive positions at Yesware, Engine Yard and is now at Sumo Logic.
Stormpath
Claire helps technology startups increase marketing performance and develop strategic messaging. She is an expert in product marketing and PR with previous experience at Samasource and LiveOps.
Citus Data
Craig is a developer marketing expert and blogs frequently about Python, Django, and Postgres. He is an early member of Heroku where he launched the company’s Python support and ran the Heroku Postgres team.
Zag Partners
Dave helps early-stage companies create and win markets, and assemble rockstar teams. Previously, he was founding CEO of Jive, where his leadership grew them from an open source project to a $55M pre-IPO company.
Intercom
Des is an experienced interaction designer with a passion for designing web applications. He is the co-founder of Intercom and writes regularly on topics including product strategy, user experience, and the business of startups.
Bluenose Analytics
Don advises Heavybit companies on post-sales, customer success, and preventing churn. He is the CEO and cofounder of Bluenose Analytics.
Startup Advisor
Geva is an expert in software pricing and product and helps developer companies move from developer traction to enterprise sales. His blog, Thinking Out Cloud, is widely read and he has been named as one of the 12 Top Thinkers in Cloud Computing.
Quick Sprout & Crazy Egg
As a serial entrepreneur passionate about growth hacking and helping other founders, Hiten is a frequent startup advisor. He is co-founder and President of KISSmetrics and previously co-founded CrazyEgg.
Parse
Ilya is an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor to startups, both individually and as a part-time partner at Y Combinator. Previously, Illya founded Parse, a mobile infrastructure company acquired by Facebook.
YesGraph
Ivan has run countless growth experiments and is an expert in crafting and optimizing referral programs. He helped Dropbox grow 12X in 2 years and is now serving as a founder at YesGraph.
Microsoft
Javier shines at designing and developing infrastructure management companies. He’s held senior engineering positions at VMware and Netscape, and is the founder of Acompli which was acquired by Microsoft for $200M.
Burkland Associates
Jeff is an expert in tactical financial management with a specialization in business plan development, financial modeling, executive and board-level reporting, and process improvement. He is the founder of Burkland Associates.
Runscope
John has 15+ years of developer evangelism experience at Twilio and IFTTT. He is the co-founder and CEO of Heavybit member company Runscope where he continues to scale a loyal community of API fanatics and contributors.
Mux
Jon is an expert at running lean startups, increasing revenue growth, and managing scalable cloud platform architecture. As a co-founder and CEO he grew Zencoder to become the world’s largest and fastest encoding platform.
BetterWorks
Kris knows developer sales and sales teams inside out. He ran enterprise sales at WebEx, and as founder and CEO of Badgeville, he grew sales to 8 figures in revenue in under 36 months.
Stripe
Krithika leads product marketing at Stripe, where she works on everything from their website and launches to sales collateral and international marketing. She’s previously worked on marketing at Dropbox and Google.
StormPath
Les is an open source guru and enterprise architect with a focus on building large-scale and distributed computing. He is now the co-founder and CTO of Stormpath.
Qubole
Marcy is an expert in early-stage sales and business development for developer startups. Previously, she has had sales roles at Engine Yard, CA Technologies and is currently at Qubole.
Silicon Valley Product Group
Marty is an expert in product strategy and the author of the book, Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love. He has held executive product positions at eBay, AOL, Netscape, and HP.
Docker
Matt specializes in early-stage, growth-oriented products. He’s an alumni of Heroku, PayPal, Amazon, Cisco, and PeopleSoft. His professional interests include enterprise software, sales operations, and business development.
CoreOS
Melissa has extensive experience in developer-focused public and analyst relations, thought leadership, and strategic messaging. She leads Marketing at CoreOS and previously ran PR for Chartio and Rackspace.
Harrison Metal
Michael is the founder of Harrison Metal. He’s an investor in several developer-focused companies including PagerDuty, StackMob, and Recurly and is an expert on productizing emerging technologies, go-to-market, product marketing, & pricing.
Iron.io
Morgan Mackles: Morgan is the SVP of Sales at Iron.io where he works to scale his team and build out commercial sales processes. He is an advisor to RainforestQA and is host of Heavybit’s Sales Master Class.
Canvas
Oren is an expert in managing people, product, and processes. Previously, he was the GM of Heroku where he helped grow the company from 9 to 150 people.
Heroku
Peter is an expert in building products, systems, and teams. As a founding member of the Heroku Postgres team he has been responsible for designing, developing, and operating the largest cluster of Postgres databases in the world.
Ignition Partners
A noted author and speaker on enterprise-IT topics, Rachel specializes in helping software companies solve complicated and urgent business problems. She joined Ignition Partners after a career as a technology analyst and journalist.
Bessemer Venture Partners
Tiffany works with Bessemer Venture Partners’ portfolio providing strategic counsel on communications and marketing initiatives. She was named one of Business Insider’s “Best 50 Communications Pros In Technology.”
BlazeMeter
Todd is a master at managing enterprise software sales motions and building multi-channel commercial organizations. He has previously worked for companies including Distelli, CFengine, and Chef Software.
Amazon
Waqas advises on developer marketing. He leads AWS’ Mobile Services developer marketing and is a mentor at mobile technologies incubator Scaler.co.
LightStep
Priyanka Sharma is the Head of Product Marketing at LightStep and cofounded WakaTime. She specializes in early-stage product marketing and demand generation.