Summary
Emily Gavrilenko is a growth-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with seven years of hands-on experience building and scaling product-led businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has led backend development, analytics, and go-to-market engineering across startups like Roboflow and Cursor, and co-founded Ryde where she wrote the majority of the backend, integrated payments, and drove adoption to hundreds of paying customers. Comfortable across the full stack and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Lambdas, RDS, CloudFront), she pairs rapid shipping with data-driven product decisions—authoring extensive MySQL dashboards and instrumentation for marketplace health. Emily blends technical leadership (team lead, product director) with founder grit, routinely bridging product, engineering, and growth to deliver measurable user outcomes. An entrepreneur at heart who “likes to code,” she favors pragmatic solutions that move early-stage products from prototype to repeatable growth.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English, Russian