Summary
Toby Waite is a product- and user-focused engineering leader with 15+ years of experience scaling consumer and B2B platforms from early-stage teams to large organizations. He has repeatedly built high-performing, cross-functional engineering organizations—most notably growing Stripe Commerce/Elements and Yelp Eat24 from single-digit teams to dozens and driving product lines that processed hundreds of millions in revenue. Toby combines technical strategy, API and platform design, and GTM alignment to launch 0→1 products and harden them for scale, having owned core API abstractions at Stripe and marketplace/transaction flows at Yelp. He’s comfortable across web, mobile, and backend systems and has led M&A-scale outcomes (Eat24’s $287M sale) while maintaining strong team culture and execution. Based in San Francisco, he’s recently focused on sustainable commerce technology, applying platform thinking to help brands extend product life cycles.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University