Summary
Esther Olatunde is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building products from 0 to scale, most notably co-founding Tress (YC W17) and growing it to over 1M MAU. As a hands-on CTO now leading a stealth AI startup, she combines backend systems design, mobile engineering, and team leadership to deliver reliable, cost-efficient platforms. At Intercom she led Knowledge Foundations for Fin.ai, re-architecting content ingestion pipelines to improve freshness and save ~$500k/year while prototyping runtime user-context injection for RAG-style AI features. She has deep full-stack chops across Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, mobile stacks and event-driven architectures, and a practical DevOps background including Terraform and CI/CD. Curious by nature (and self-described as “the cat that curiosity can't kill”), she thrives on learning fast, shipping experimental AI integrations, and turning analytics into product decisions. Based in Dublin, she pairs entrepreneurial grit with measurable engineering impact and a track record of scaling teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at The Open University
Y Combinator
Certificate Software Development and Entrepreneurship Training Program, Certificate Software Development and Entrepreneurship Training Program at MEST Africa
BSc (Hons) Computing (Mobile Computing), BSc (Hons) Computing (Mobile Computing) at Arden University
Irish, French, English, Yoruba