Amber Rucker is a seasoned product and design leader with over a decade building and scaling high-performing teams and technical SaaS products from seed to acquisition. As a co-founder and former CPO of Aikido Security and Head of Product Design at neptune.ai (acquired by OpenAI), she blends hands-on design, research, and product strategy to make data- and security-heavy systems feel simple and usable. She has a track record of accelerating growth—launching complex products in months, securing funding and partnerships, and driving measurable customer impact like saving thousands of developer days. Amber excels at operationalizing research and design systems across organizations, having scaled teams 3–4x and embedded data-driven practices at companies from startups to enterprise. Based in Barcelona, she mentors product professionals and contributes practical frameworks to the community, bringing a maker’s mentality evident in her “making the internet by day and night” GitHub ethos. Her background in communication design gives her a rare combination of technical fluency and craft-driven user empathy that consistently uncovers non-obvious product opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Communication Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Communication Design at Texas State University
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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