Emily Kyle is a founder and marketing leader turned CEO building Good Grief, a consumer platform that modernizes how people plan for and navigate loss, inspired by her own personal experience with sudden bereavement. With ~4 years in startup leadership and a decade-plus career scaling events, brand, and field marketing at companies like GitLab and Arch (formerly Meltano), she combines product-minded growth strategy with hands-on execution. She’s comfortable shipping both technical and consumer-facing work—having contributed front-end, back-end, and documentation improvements to the open-source Meltano project—while also coaching sales and habit-driven growth for early-stage teams. An MBA from Kellogg and a background in UX and communications give her a rare blend of operational rigor, design empathy, and storytelling that drives adoption and trust.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at San Francisco University High School
B.A. Communications Studies and Art History, B.A. Communications Studies and Art History at Northwestern University
UX Design Intensive, UX Design Intensive at General Assembly
Kellogg School of Management
Law, Law at University of San Francisco School of Law
Meltano: the declarative code-first data integration engine that powers your wildest data and ML-powered product ideas. Say goodbye to writing, maintaining, and scaling your own API integrations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 50 commits, 11 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Emily contributed to both the frontend and backend of the Meltano project. They implemented changes to the documentation, including updates to handbook pages and the addition of an "elt" page. Their contributions also included modifications to the frontend, with logo updates, and changes to the UI. Additionally, the user worked on backend functionality, specifically related to singer taps and environment services.
Contributions:12 PRs, 8 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
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