Summary
Denali Lumma is a platform engineering executive based in Los Gatos with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling infrastructure for fast-growing tech companies. Currently at Modular, she focuses on unifying compilers, runtimes, and heterogeneous compute to make AI infrastructure "just work" in production, while advising DORA and founding a data-driven technical advisory firm, Doubling. Her background spans leadership roles at Box, Uber, Okta and early engineering at Netflix and 23andMe, giving her a rare blend of product-sensitive systems design and operational rigor. She also contributes to the startup ecosystem as an advisor to Y Combinator and scout for Headline, bringing investor-facing technical judgment to help founders scale. An interesting through-line: she pairs enterprise-scale reliability expertise with hands-on platform work aimed at drastically reducing developer time-to-value for AI and cloud-native systems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
The College Preparatory School
Computer Science, Computer Science at Mills College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Hunter College