Nicole Hedley
Co-Founder & CEO at Headstart AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicole Hedley is a product-focused engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise software across growth-stage startups and platform companies. As Co-Founder and CEO of Headstart AI, she leads development of agentic enterprise solutions and the coding agent Friday, translating research-grade AI into production tooling for organizations. Her background spans hands-on mobile and growth engineering at Pinterest and AppNexus to technical leadership roles at Ribbon and as CTO at Dibs, giving her a track record of scaling teams and shipping customer-facing systems. Based in New York, she combines product intuition with engineering rigor to bridge roadmap priorities and low-level architecture. A Dartmouth computer science graduate, she’s as comfortable mentoring engineers as she is pitching product strategy to stakeholders. Colleagues would note her pattern of turning early prototypes into repeatable operational products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeThe Lawrenceville School
SpanishGithub contributions (1)
syoder15/CS98GroupProject
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 17 pushes in 5 months
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