Summary
Lucas Della Bella is a technical product manager and former engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven platforms and developer-facing APIs from San Francisco. He currently leads product at Metriport after progressing through engineering roles there, where he helped build an open-source API and platform for healthcare data exchange. Lucas co-founded startups (including a YC-backed Untether Labs) and a lightweight prototyping tool for directors of photography, blending product leadership with hands-on engineering. His background spans full-stack systems at SafeGraph and Yelp, real-time bidding and NoSQL work in ad tech, and early internships at Apple, showing comfort across backend, frontend, and mobile stacks. Fluent in both technical execution and early-stage company strategy, he brings a pragmatic, maker-oriented approach to product decisions. An uncommon thread in his career is switching fluidly between founder/operator roles and deep engineering work, which helps him translate developer needs into shipping products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science Major, Chinese Minor, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science Major, Chinese Minor at Georgia Institute of Technology
Montclair High School
(Exchange), (Exchange) at Tsinghua University
English