Billy Rusteen
Chief In-House Coach at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Rusteen is a strategic in-house legal leader and coach with 10+ years of experience helping tech companies navigate commercialization, partnerships, and product risk—from startup fixtures to enterprise scale. He currently combines roles as Chief In-House Coach (helping attorneys make the jump to in-house roles) with senior legal leadership at Databricks, where he’s led GTM, marketplace, and procurement legal efforts and supported major M&A and Marketplace launches. Previously he shaped developer tooling and product legal strategy at Microsoft and GitHub, driving telemetry, automation, and licensing solutions that enabled large-scale CI/CD and product launches. Billy’s background blends practical deal-making and process design with hands-on entrepreneurial projects (like a crowdsourced fantasy-football side startup), reflecting a knack for translating technical product complexity into business-forward legal strategies.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Foothill CollegeB.A. Business Economics, B.A. Business Economics at UC Santa BarbaraBellarmine College PreparatoryDoctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at Loyola Law School, Los AngelesContinuing Studies Program, Continuing Studies Program at Stanford University
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
birust/CELA-Learning-Repo
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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