Søren Rood is a seasoned founder and product-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building platforms that scale, currently co-founding Run to deliver AI teammates that automate messy operational work for industries like manufacturing and healthcare. He helped grow Replit from a 16-person team to 130 and the user base from 2M to 50M+, shipping multiple 0→1 products across agents, cloud services, marketplaces, and growth/fraud tooling. Comfortable across full-stack product and systems work, he pairs a passion for great user experiences with a knack for reverse engineering to simplify complex workflows. Earlier roles span high-frequency market making, SPAC trading tools, and industrial manufacturing—evidence of a pragmatic, domain-diverse approach to product design. Based in Palo Alto, he combines startup grit with venture-backed incubation experience from Sutter Hill Ventures.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Seattle Pacific University
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 3 years
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