Summary
Georgia Rust is a product leader with 10 years of experience building developer- and design-focused platforms at high-growth startups, currently managing Creation Engine product teams at Figma where she drives canvas rendering, performance, extensions, and core foundational systems. She progressed from product roles to leadership at Figma after founding product at a startup and shaping workflows at Abstract and Instabase, blending hands-on technical fluency from a full-stack bootcamp with business training from the University of San Diego. Comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market, she has background as a solutions engineer at GitHub and RichRelevance that helps her translate complex technical constraints into pragmatic product decisions. An active angel investor with The Council, she brings an operator’s lens to early-stage bets and a knack for optimizing platform-level performance that powers broad user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Computer Science, Full Stack Web Development Computer Science at Dev Bootcamp
Business Administration and Management, Business Administration and Management at University of San Diego
English