Summary
Hideko Tachibana is a versatile operations and product executive with 12 years of experience scaling startups, private equity-backed portfolios, and corporate finance functions from Austin, Texas. She has repeatedly led acquisitions, integrations, and growth as a founder, COO, and VP across B2B SaaS, e-commerce, and developer tools—most recently serving as VP at The Space Between and COO at Uprising after operational leadership roles at Optery and Merge Freeze. Comfortable at the intersection of product, finance, and go-to-market, she combines deal execution and fund operations experience from co-founding Fork Equity with hands-on product ownership from multiple exits. Technically literate with a background in economics and CS coursework from Harvard and practical engineering training (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript), she codes in C#, Ruby and has been exploring Go, which helps her bridge engineering and executive teams. Known for shipping pragmatic, customer-focused solutions—like an OCR invoice app and a GitHub-integrated merge control tool—she brings an owner’s mindset to operationalizing repeatable growth.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics Coursework in Computer Science, BA Economics Coursework in Computer Science at Harvard University
Graduate Ruby on Rails JavaScript Advanced jQuery SQL courses, Graduate Ruby on Rails JavaScript Advanced jQuery SQL courses at Launch School