I spent the first 10 years of my career trying to be a professional cyclist. I used to do web development part time to make some money on the side. I wasn't particularly good at either.

I live in Cambridge with Fran (wife), Ruby (daughter), and Wally (cat). Since you're probably wondering, the cat's name is a reference to WALL-E - work for us to find out why.

After a growing sense of my own mortality combined with a bunch of large crashes put me off continuing with my cycling career, I bootstrapped an online marketing company to several million dollars a year.

I wanted more experience of working in a VC backed startup, so I could work on something really ambitious. I moved to Arachnys, and somehow wound up as a their VP of Sales for a little over 4 years, where I used to manage a team selling very large enterprise software deals. We learned how to take our sales from an average of $5K/year to over $1M/year.

I started working with Tim on a few ideas that didn't work out in August 2019. We built PostHog during the Y Combinator W20 batch, and launched in February 2020. You can work out what I've been up to since by stalking me online.

I've been coding since I've been 11, which isn't as long ago as I'd like it to be. Someone first paid me to write code when I was 13 (though I'm sure they regretted it) and someone else gainfully employed me when I was 16.

Originally from the Netherlands, though I quickly moved to London (I do not generally enjoy nice weather) where I joined Arachnys and shortly afterwards met James Hawkins. I went from being a software engineer, to product manager, to "leading" an R&D team, which consisted of just me.

After four years I thought it was time to go do something else and had lined up a new job. Roughly 37 seconds after it was announced James wanted to "grab a beer." While plying me with alcohol, he convinced me to give up this fancy new job and instead start a startup with him.

In my 'spare' time, I fall down snowy mountains, wrestle in the mud over an egg-shaped ball and watch a lot of Bondi beach in order to perfect my Australian accent.

At PostHog, we sponsor a hedgehog for every new team member! Our donations support the work of the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust in the UK, where the hedgehog population has sadly fallen by 50% over the last 20 years.

As HIR, Max oversees all hedgehog-related activity, including consuming an omnivorous diet, hibernating during the winter months, and being illegal to own as a pet in Italy and some US states. Max likes sleeping in dens and dislikes badgers.

Max also jumps in on community questions and tries to answer as many as possible (with a little help from Inkeep)!

I first got into programming in 1994 when I wanted to make my own computer games... and asked my father for help. He sat me behind a Turbo Basic interpreter, wrote PRINT "Marius on tubli poiss" and then left me there. I was 8 years old.

Luckily we had a Yamaha YIS-805/128R2 lying around... with floppy disks full of random .BAS files. I was hooked. Cue to the beautiful loops of CLS, PRINT and GOTO statements that ensued. I even made some games where you could move two dinosaurs who got points when they kissed each other. It was glorious.

I also got into "web development" in 1997 after seeing Netscape at my mother's university. They even provided me with a generous 10MB of space to host my own beautiful website, complete with animated gifs, a Mortal Kombat fanpage and a strong recommendation to use 800x600 with HiColor!

This was followed by years of writing games in C++ and then writing tutorials about them, coding websites in Perl, PHP, Java and Ruby... and "losing" a decade as the CTO of two failed startups.

On the side I built an open source database analytics platform... and when that got on Hacker News, James reached out... and the rest is history.

These days I live in Belgium and code state management libraries in JavaScript for fun.

While in college I helped cofound a social dining platform. I spent two years trying to get strangers to cook and dine with each other. In reality, it turned into a 2 year stint of teach yourself as much mobile development as you can while simultaneously trying to build a usable platform. My cofounders and I had our fair share of contemplating dropping out of school and becoming a unicorn in 5 years—it didn't work out.

I currently am the team lead for PostHog's Data warehouse product. I've previously been a part of building out the initial product analytics suite and feature flagging product.

To end with some obligatory "I dO MoRE ThAN COdE" details: I enjoy snowboarding and skiing and I'm currently trying to cycle more. I've also taken a sudden interest in making my own clothes. Ambitions subject to change as always though.

When I was a kid the first thing I remember wanting to be was a pilot, so naturally here I am knee deep in code and data!

Growing up was slightly different in Florida. Things that are normal there are growing up in the water and spending almost all of your free time in it. In the Gulf of Mexico for me. We’d go swimming, scuba diving, or fishing in that warm body of water almost every weekend.

Nowadays I’m spending my free time on a bike finding some new trail up in the northern bits of the Bay Area that I call home now. If not on a bike you’ll find my friends and I on a hike either around here or over in Tahoe or some National Forest east of here. Lately I’m trying to get back into flying. I’ve got about 80 hours of flight in the book, but still don’t have my ticket! It’s time to change that. In the winter time you can find me ruining skis on some mountain.

In my professional life I’ve generally managed mopping up the 1’s and 0’s. I’ve led data at an upstart music streaming company, and dove way too deep into the depths of the comment section leading data at Disqus. Kept an eye on a fleet of Autonomous Ubers. Most recently I combined my interest in bikes with data leading data engineering at Jump, still the best micromobility company out there.

When I’m not out and about in nature you can find me at home with my cat Tesla and Taco our goofball of a Lab Corgi mix.

I am from the UK - so by default I love the pub, marmite and tea (but not all at once, that would be a sin).

I spent my youth trying to master fine art, after my teacher said I wasn't very good and that I should try something else. In my stubbornness I decided to prove them wrong, and here I am - a designer.

After studying art through school, I took Graphic Design at university and graduated in summer 2020. But instead of a summer of fun, I was faced with a crashing economy, a pandemic and a collapsing job market. But thankfully, after putting my portfolio up on twitter, I was contacted by PostHog a mere 24 hours later, and the rest is history.

I am now their Graphic Designer, and I couldn't be happier. I spend my days designing the product’s brand and most importantly drawing hedgehogs doing silly things.

Born and raised in the UAE, I'm half British, half Lebanese, and grew up in various countries across the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Now based in the UK, I live with my wife Steph and two sons.

I'm the exec who oversees all things operational and go-to-market at PostHog - that's marketing, sales & CS, people & ops, and comms.

I was previously COO at Vitl, (personalised nutrition), and before that I held various roles including Director of Product at ROLI (electronic music hardware and software).

I love terrible jokes, beautifully crafted sandwiches and looking at designer houses I will never live in. I like to occasionally torment my son with my piano playing and spend more time than is probably reasonable making lists of things, à la High Fidelity.

(It's pronounced WADDLE-low.)

The most interesting webmaster at PostHog.com

As one of the few PostHoggers who never attempted to enter the world of professional cycling, I instead spend much of my free time exploring new coffee shops or wine bars - generally sipping an iced almond milk latte in the morning and a nice sangria when it hits 5:00 somewhere. On Tuesdays, you can be sure to find me at a Taco Tuesday. (I live for Tuesdays.)

I was once labeled "The migrating goose of PostHog" by CEO James Hawkins, as I spent 3+ years traveling the United States in an RV. After a few years, I settled down in Tampa, Florida where I swapped the truck and RV for a golf cart, which is now my primary mode of transportation!

When I'm not wireframing in Balsamiq, designing in Figma, or writing Tailwind CSS, I'm likely building legos with my ~~two year old~~ ~~three year old~~ four year old or changing diapers on my ~~newborn~~ one year old.

Since I'm a dad, I am now legally entitled to make dad jokes. So in light of the rich cycling history of our company, I present the following: "Why couldn't the bicycle stand up by itself? It was two tired."

There's three things I love:

1. Learning new things
2. Applying them
3. Doing something useful

Software happens to tick all those boxes, so there's no wonder I enjoy coding.

Before PostHog, I was at Bloomberg for ~2.5 years, before which I was studying Mathematics and Computing (ouch) at IIT Delhi. I've built a few fun projects, but one of my favourites is a crypto-currency I started in university that aimed to resolve the issues with Bitcoin. Even with a metric-tonne of funding, that didn't work out as expected, which clued me in to learn about non-technical skills and how startups work.

When I'm not coding, I write my blog, which also not surprisingly, ticks all the boxes above. I've had more than a few posts reach the top of Hacker News, which is epic.

When the above two exhaust me, I spend time travelling, bouldering, hiking, or dancing. Sometimes, I swim too, but the only stroke I know is the panic-stroke. Some other times, I spend time meeting interesting people on Twitter.

Fun Fact: I usually find out about "current" affairs ~2-6 months after they happen. Yes, I learned about Brexit after it happened... ...It happened, right?

In order, I have been: a clown, a morgue cleaner, a chainsaw salesman, a journalist, and a content consultant. Doing product marketing for startups seemed like a natural progression.

I'm passionate about long-distance hiking, videogame preservation, hackathons, and dive bars. If you're a PostHog user and you get an email from us, I probably sent it. Hello!

Some of the more tasks I own include: customer stories, startups programs, leading the support team, email marketing, partnerships, PR, driving user feedback, sales support, copywriting, product launches, feature announcements, incident comms, and telling everyone that it is time for lunch.

I'm currently working on too many things to explain here.

When I'm not working, I enjoy creating and listening to music. I also enjoy cooking (haven't killed anyone yet), hiking, and drinking a good beer. Sometimes at the same time.

I've always wanted to solve problems. So, I studied biochemistry. And discovered I am not a biochemist. During and after university, I played in several bands. Without changing the world of music. And fell into a job in I.T. support. For several years I managed I.T. for The British Mountaineering Council. I taught myself to program. Studied an MSc in Computer Science part-time. And discovered that writing software is how I love solving problems.

I'm half Italian. When I was young I refused to learn to speak Italian. Ma sto imparando ora! To make amends I've been learning to make Neapolitan style pizza and getting pretty good.

There is a worrying link between the number of programming languages I've used and the number of children I've had. For a while, I was saying I had five children. Until someone pointed out I was counting the dog. My labrador retriever Yoko is - as measured by photos taken - my favourite child.

Since becoming a software engineer full-time. I've worked at software agencies. At a startup, building Google Analytics for the physical world (which was like magic when it worked). And spent several fulfilling years leading teams at Co-op Digital. I think in diagrams and draw on tables. And I am never happier than in the moments after I have managed to figure out how to make something simpler.

I work pretty hard to remember you can work hard and still have fun.

I've jumped around a lot, professionally. Once upon a time, I studied meditation and the brain by training drug users to meditate and then putting them in an MRI machine. It was a lot of fun, but ultimately, I realized the academic thing was not for me. After that, I cut my teeth at a few software companies, where I worked with a ton of users, helping them build all manner of fun and interesting things to automate their businesses.

I found that I enjoyed making operations "just work" for businesses and developing relationships with customers quite a lot, so I spent the next couple of years consulting, doing just that. Eventually, I teamed up with a friend's agricultural business, where I built out an e-commerce store to sell poultry early in the pandemic, and built tools to improve operations. Ultimately, there are only so many technical problems to solve for a small poultry business, which is why I ended up at PostHog.

When I'm not PostHogging, I can be found cooking, hiking, collecting tinned fish, playing tennis, or pretending I'm 80 years old and contemplatively smoking a pipe.

Previously a journalist. I worked in online publishing when magazines were still a big deal. I started out as a consumer tech editor in the mid-2000s. Later in my career I moved into audience development, including stints at Time Inc. (TrustedReviews), Condé Nast (WIRED), and LBG Media.

At PostHog I edit all the words, keep an eye on marketing metrics, and feed the Google bots. I also run our newsletter, Product for Engineers.

Things I like: Dogs, cricket, Formula 1 (motorsport in general), good sci-fi, online sim racing (and taking it way too seriously), really good words. En dashes.

Things I dislike: Marvel and DC movies, Em dashes (see my README)

I currently lead the Sales and Customer Success Team at PostHog, and am personally responsible for large customer relationships too. I'm a firm believer in doing sales in a non-salesy way and meet customers where they are at in their buying process.

After studying four years of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield in the UK I realised that I enjoyed presenting to humans and helping them solve their own problems with technology rather than hacking away at my (middling) code all day; thus a career in Customer Success was born. My main focus in this journey has been helping people automate lots of different things:

• IBM (7 years) - automate build and deployment
• CA Technologies (1.5 years) - automate build and deployment but with a different product
• Chef Software (5 years) - automate infrastructure and compliance
• Logz.io (1 year) - automate monitoring and observability

As you can tell, my passion is helping people automate all of the things so along the way I've picked up skills in DevOps, Cloud, and many adjacent areas. I also led technical teams at Chef and Logz.io so I'm passionate about developing high-performing groups of customer-obsessed people. Notwithstanding my above comment about avoiding coding 9-5, I do like to keep my hands dirty with technology and I've been maintaining a website for people with Type 1 Diabetes (like myself) since 2008 which has helped me level up in Ruby, Javascript, Containers and lots more.

I live in Sheffield in the North of the UK with my wife, 3 young boys and a black labrador so have a very busy home life, mainly focused on taking the boys to various sporting clubs, long walks in the woods and Lego building.

When not working or family-ing I enjoy gaming on the Xbox (I've recently enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2 and Jedi Survivor), watching superhero films and home automation. My all-time favourite TV show is The Office: An American Workplace and 90% of the GIFs I use come from there.

I have lived coast to coast and spent the last fifteen years of my career in talent and people! There’s just something satisfying about the hustle for placing great talent. I've worked in small to mid-sized companies, spending the last nine years in start-ups building and scaling teams.

Outside of my career, I enjoy traveling, trying new restaurants, DIY projects, sunday brunch, and spending time with my insanely huge family (9 siblings and 17 nieces/nephews in counting)!

I am also a big foodie - I am always on the hunt for some good soup dumpling and ramen!

Servus! 👋 By day I'm a Software Engineer jumping into every part of the stack I can get my hands on - by night I'm a legendary amateur musician touring the world writing silly songs in my lovely little corner of Munich, Germany.

I've had a fairly varied career from big places to startups to consulting to indie-app-development but always with Product at the heart of it - I love being part of making something that people get genuine delight from. More importantly I love bringing delight to the people around me whether that's with my home baking, terrible jokes or spontaneous songs (like the one I played to all my new colleagues in the first weeks at PostHog 🙉). I don't believe in being embarrassed - the best things happen when you open yourself up and share what your passionate about.

I try to work on as much of PostHog as I can, going wherever the most challenging problem lies. Secretly though my favourite thing to work on is Hedgehog Mode 🦔

Believe it or not, my first job included writing exciting marketing campaigns for robotic handling systems. (It wasn’t that exciting.) So I ended up moving to London in 2019 to study for an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction at UCL. (Way more exciting.) My plan was to land a job in a startup after graduating, which, through a bit of ‘hustling’ (Sigma Squared Summit, Voyagers, Kickstart London) and being in the right place at the right time actually worked out.

After graduating, I joined an early-stage startup called Caura, where I first had the title of a Product Designer and later on, that of a Product Manager. Titles aside, what motivates me most in my work is talking to users about what they want, uncovering what they actually mean by that and then building something they didn’t even think they needed.

I joined PostHog in autumn 2022, arguably the most exciting step in my career so far.

What else? On weekends, I hang out with friends, try to make a dent in my ever growing reading list or learn something new. My family is from the Black Forest region in Germany, so I spend a couple of weeks every year working from there, going on lots of countryside walks and eating Black Forest gateau.

Hi, I’m Ian. I’m a writer and software developer based in Vancouver. Unlike many at PostHog, I’ve lived nearly my entire life on the west coast of Canada.

My career started in sales and customer success as I thought it could lead to working on products as a “non-technical” person. I realized, if I learned to code, I could control my destiny and build products myself. So I did it, and that led to work at a few small startups and my own side projects.

At the same time, I wrote about areas that interested me like products, communities, and internet culture. Among other achievements, my writing made it to the top of HackerNews (twice). I’ve also written for startups working in crypto, devtools, and community.

Outside of work, writing, and coding, I lift weights (working on my squat PR), run, learn Portuguese, and read a range of non-fiction books.

Hi I’m Kendal and I live in Norfolk UK with my partner, Olly. I have a Law degree, but after seeing how much contract reading was involved, I decided it wasn’t the career path for me!

I enjoy reading, travelling, Formula 1, true crime and crochet. An eclectic mix, which will probably tell you a lot about me! Fun fact: I’m a Pisces, so I like to think I’m creative and intuitive, love to make everyone my friend, and enjoy having a little daydream.

I also have a cat called Meatloaf who exclusively wears bowties, so she is therefore far cooler than me.

Hi there! My name is Daniel Esneider, and I am an SRE engineer with a strong desire to learn and improve. I am always looking for ways to contribute to my company and make a positive impact. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family, playing soccer, and pursuing my passion for agriculture, specifically coffee beans. I have a solid foundation in both technical and practical skills, and I am always looking for ways to learn and grow in my field. When I’m not working on complex projects or tending to my farm, I love spending time with loved ones and approaching every task with enthusiasm and a commitment to excellence.

I'm a scientist at heart who loves taking complex ideas and combining them into one simple product that users love - and that's why I'm a home cook.

Juuuust kidding. That's why I write code! I wrote my first line of "code" when I was 19 years old trying to change the color of an h1 on my WordPress website. I found the stylesheet, changed the hex code, sweated bullets as I pressed the save button, and then my jaw hit the floor when it worked. I continued to tinker with websites through my dual undergrad programs in Molecular Biology and Microbiology, and finally after graduating taught myself how to actually code.

In my career I've built websites for food bloggers, headed up Product at a manufacturing tech startup, built and ran my own startup (it failed), and finally found a role that allows me to do both PM and engineering as a growth engineer here at PostHog.

I live in San Luis Obispo, CA with my husband, AJ, our two little girls, Kacey and Norah, and our black lab pup, Dedas. In my spare time you'll either find me riding my mountain bike on the local trails or making tasty food in my kitchen (I do actually really like to cook).

Hi, my name is Thomas, I'm 35 years old and live in the beautiful city of Munich together with my girlfriend. I’ve been interested in programming and entrepreneurship since I was a small kid, originally wanting to become a game developer.

After school, I studied mathematics and physics with the desire to better understand how the world works - do we have a free will or is everything deterministic? Richard Feynman surely left an impression on me. However it soon became clear that the answers I'd get wouldn’t fulfil my desire.

I also always knew I didn’t want to pursue a traditional career (e.g. insurance) and towards the end of my bachelor I was looking to join a startup part-time. At a local event I quickly found out that technical people are in high demand. I met the founders of Freeletics, was immediately convinced, and joined them as CTO – full-time.

After a meteoric rise to 120 people and multi-million users, it was time for a new adventure and I co-founded Workpath with two people from the local startup scene.

Enterprise is fun for a while, but at some point I wanted to get back to building more consumer facing products. That’s when I decided to combine passion with job and founded Passion Climb, which I now maintain as a side project.

Looking for more peace of mind and not being the ultimate decision maker for a bit, I joined the fantastic team at PostHog, which I have already used myself at Passion Climb. And thus, here I am, focusing on building a great UI and making a product people love.

In my free time, I love climbing, being outdoors, vanlifing, cooking and great food in general.

When I'm not making the world a better place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols I'm working on new and innovative ways to write complex data infrastructure platforms in YAML

I grew up in South Africa and have spent time living in Israel, San Francisco, India, and Amsterdam 🇿🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇳🇳🇱 and yet I've somehow managed to find myself stuck in London 🇬🇧

Before joining Posthog, I was at Meta for 5 years, working as a software engineer and engineering manager. I left Meta to explore a few startup ideas I had, like building a Slack alternative and a few other ideas (which I wrote about in my Substack). My current (side) project is Remote Rocketship, which is a job board for remote jobs. Funnily enough, that's how I ended up finding PostHog:

I tweeted asking for a suggestion for an analytics tool and someone recommended PostHog. James liked the tweet, so I ended up looking at his profile and saw this job opening there!

On the personal side, I spend most of my time with my wife and son. In my spare time, I'm usually climbing, running, or walking about 🏃🏻‍♂️ I also try to go surfing whenever possible! 🏄🏻‍♂️

An aspiring biography writer who lacks inspiration...

Having grown up in Ireland, I started learning to code towards the end of high school. I studied Computer & Electronic Engineering where I took courses in telecommunications, embedded systems and SOC. Realising a greater passion for software I was offered an internship at Intercom and never looked back at hardware again.

Before PostHog, I was the founder of a Y Combinator company. We built 6 different products in 3.5 years before I eventually decided it was time for a change.

I am terrible at talking about myself, so here is what I thought about putting here and why I didn't:

• A short summary of basic facts about myself (age, place of birth, etc...).
  • Rejected because: Opens up the door to biases (but doesn't everything, even this very question?).
• My life story.
  • Rejected because: Both past achievements and failures are only as valuable as their signal power to predict the future. More often than not, they can't.
• A joke.
  • Rejected because: I don't know any, and it's not worth it to spend resources asking AI for one.
• My job description.
  • Rejected because: I write code in a start-up; my job description means very little beyond that, and I enjoy that.
• My personal interests.
  • Rejected because: My head is in work mode and can't think about my interests. The short summary is computer stuff, games (board and video), and lifting weights.
• Some permutation of all or some of the above.
  • Rejected because: n! possible options depending on sample size.

I’m Marcus, the first support engineer at PostHog. I will very likely talk to you if you experience issues related to product analytics or cdp.

Before PostHog I was building an open-source loom alternative at Snapify and reached the front page of HackerNews using Tablane.

I visited the London Science Museum too many times as a kid and now I love building and playing with technology. Now I'm building things that are indistinguishable from magic.

My mum was a programmer in the 80s, and I grew up around computers. I studied Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, and worked in startups across a variety of industries.

Before I joined PostHog I was co-founder / CTO of Blueheart, and I have extremely strong opinions about what is missing from the various product analytics tool available, and have been fixing that with PostHog.

I grew up in Texas and use "howdy", "y'all", and "ain't" unironically, because they are good words for good people. These days I live in Colorado, I bike and BBQ, and mostly take care of my three little boys. Three. 😩

During school I cut my teeth on very, very early Django, and fell in love with distributed systems soon after. That was approximately a million years ago at this point.

Born and raised in Brazil, Italian by heart but living in Austria.

Mobile Engineer as a profession, Android lover but iPhone user.

Very sporty but also a foodie, my worst enemy is and always will be the scale.

Quite a controversial Bio, yet unique, and ah, I do not think pineapple belongs on pizza.

I started coding as a kid, stemming from taking apart computers and occasionally being successful when putting them back together. Moved to London to attend university and consequently entered the world of start-ups - mostly marketplaces, from small to large.

Outside of tech, you can usually find me snowboarding the French alps in the winter, and cycling the Spanish mountains in the summer.

I had been building radio-controlled planes for much of my teens. This taught me precision, coming up with my own designs and having them stand the test of physics.

After three years of studying economics, I toyed with a business idea that led nowhere - except for leading me to learn web development. After a brief stint as a translator at Booking.com, I pivoted to programming in earnest and haven't looked back since.

I spent the last couple of years as a full stack engineer at a startup focusing on news analytics. I learned a ton and got to wear many hats. Among other things, I built the Alerts product and the scoring & aggregation part of the pipeline, which processes up to a million articles per day.

On the side, I'm working on a ride-sharing simulation and writing a blog. My project was featured on The Pragmatic Engineer, the #1 technology newsletter on Substack.

I love cycling, hiking, flight simulators, and reading novels, biographies and history. I'm a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and I enjoy riding motorbikes - here's me and my friends traveling across Vietnam.

I’m a seasoned software engineer known for my problem-solving prowess and collaborative spirit Over the past decade, I’ve developed a strong foundation in both backend and frontend technologies, including Python, Django, TypeScript, Elasticsearch, Celery, and React.

My professional journey has taken me through the intricacies of designing robust architectures and managing multifaceted projects. I excel in streamlining engineering workflows and optimizing processes to ensure seamless project execution. Leading development teams has been a rewarding aspect of my career, where I’ve cultivated an inclusive and empowering environment that values every contribution.

One of my core strengths is making pragmatic decisions that balance innovation with practicality. I’m committed to best practices and continuous improvement, always looking for ways to enhance the software development lifecycle. Staying current with industry trends and new technologies is a priority for me, driving my dedication to lifelong learning and skill expansion.

I thrive in dynamic settings, whether it’s kickstarting new projects from the ground up or diving into established ones. My ability to quickly adapt and bring fresh perspectives to product design and functionality sets me apart. I’m passionate about creating user-centric solutions that are both effective and elegant, ensuring that the end product not only meets but exceeds expectations.

In essence, I’m a full-stack developer with a rich experience in guiding small to mid-sized projects for diverse clients. I bring creativity, efficiency, and a collaborative mindset to every team I join.

I am originally from Glasgow, Scotland, where I live today via Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, San Francisco and more recently London for nearly 10 years.

I decided at 16 that I was going to study Law, because my friends were doing that. When I started university at 17 I realised it was a lot of reading, and when I started working in law firms at 18 I knew it wasn't for me. However, it took me until 21 to fully turn my back on my short-lived career in the law. It was then I headed to the Southern Hemisphere where I spent 18 months working as a barista and my love of coffee began, which still burns brightly.

In 2013 I moved from Melbourne to London and joined my first startup, a YC company called Homejoy. It could not have been further from my time in law firms and I loved it. My career in Operations since then has transitioned from working in marketplaces to B2B SaaS, the latter where I have worked for the last 8 years in Ops & Finance.

At PostHog I am the Ops & Finance lead and I like things to run smoothly. I am mainly focused on making sure we don't run out of money, we don't get sued and making sure our team are very happy. All very important things that I take very seriously, I don't take myself seriously at all.

I love puns, I love films & tv, I love sports. I can usually be found outside work playing golf or watching football, predominantly following my team the length and breadth of Scotland, and sometimes across Europe.

At a previous startup, I met a girl called Sinead who I quite liked and I managed to convince her to move with me to Glasgow and we now have a son called Patrick (Sinead and Patrick are Irish, if it wasn't obvious). We spend a lot of time in Dublin with their family, which is great fun.

My biggest fear is people would hesitate to reach out to me with a question. Please, please, please reach out!

I started my career in finance and eventually found my way into tech, where I love working with smart people on difficult problems while wearing casual clothes. Outside of work, I enjoy visiting museums, eating good food, and reading books.

I grew up with little technology in my household. I spent my summers at the farm driving tractors and yelling at people for eating too many berries and my winters at the ski hill teaching people how to roll down the hill.

I went to the University of Waterloo to study Computer and Electrical Engineering. When I chose the program, it was 1. For the electrical part - I thought I wanted to go into Hydro and 2. a total guess on what school to go to. I can honestly say I don't know why I chose Waterloo. I was one of few out of 500+ students in my class that didn't know how to code. When we got our first project in C#, and it asked us to write a program that outputted a user-entered string to the console, I was lost. It took me days to figure it out. Googling "what is a string" didn't help. But once I did. I fell in love. I was super lucky to have chosen Waterloo because it gave me the opportunity to work across a bunch of companies with their coop program, everything from a small YC company to a Fortune 500 company.

I've built everything from real estate CMS's (early in my career I thought I discovered what a CMS was and was going to make a massive business from it - little did I know we all have this realization) to a housemate matching system to Chrome extensions to make Zapier better to peripheral device integrations to surf the web.

My current side projects include an open-source Grammarly alternative called scamable and a tool to analyze your blood tests over time.

While at Waterloo, I started a company named Kopa (pka PadPiper), we went through the YC W19 batch. Since then, I've done some work with WorkOS and On Deck, and had a small bootstrapped saas app acquired. I also founded Zettlor and spent ~1.5 years building it.

I dabble in investing and advising early-stage startups, check out more on my website. And I enjoy travelling - I've lived in Vancouver, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Porto, and Lima.

These days, my time is spent training for a triathlon (joining the team ranks as a PostHog cyclist), sauna/ice bath sessions, playing poker, skiing, finding the best coffee in the city and spending time with my wife (Laura) and my puppy (Daisy).

When I was a kid, my grandfather showed me something that blew my little mind: his new Atari Pong console. I'm pretty sure that was the day that my interest in computing began. Later, in high school, I didn't hesitate to sign up for a "Programming In Basic" class which was offered after The Tandy Corporation donated 30 new TRS-80s. (insert Blade Runner "like tears in the rain" meme here.)

I was distracted by storytelling for quite a while though. I was a theatre artist from age 12 on into my mid-30s. From my teens into my mid-20s I waited tables to support my theatre habit. Then, after the Mosaic browser introduced the world to the WWW, I switched to tech support to pay the bills.

I quickly realized that working with talented, passionate people on building Internet-related products and services to delight users could be as fun as working on a theatrical production to delight audiences. So I kept a foot in both worlds (theatre and tech) for 10 years, building out tech support infrastructure for startups by day, rehearsing and performing during nights and weekends.

Then I became a parent. A choice had to be made. So, to provide better opportunities for my kids, I shelved my theatre habit and stayed focused on tech and parenting.

After working with a few startups early in my career, I settled at a real estate technology startup for almost 18 years. They were acquired by a larger company during my 14th year. I survived the first round of layoffs, but not the second. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was very fortunate to have been laid off when I was, because...

Then I had the good fortune of being invited to join PostHog in March of 2024. I'm writing this after only three days on the job, but I really don't recall having been this excited by a new job in a very long time (or ever, if I omit a few choice acting roles from that list. 😊)

In my free time, I can usually be found practicing guitar (late blooming hobbyist, started learning in 2017), listening to music, reading, working on my website, spending time with one or both of my sons, and/or our 3 cats.

Epilogue: There is a place for pineapple on pizza.*

* but only if the only other topping is pepperoni. 🤓

I don't love writing about myself and this is very freeform, and I'm drawing a blank on what to say, so I'm going to make up some questions and answer those instead.

What is your favorite food

Probably Roti Prata with a good mutton curry

What is your favorite activity

Downhill skiing, but it has been hard to find time for this as I had a baby recently. Hope to get back to it when the kids can do it too!

When did you learn to code?

Probably at a summer camp, don't remember the year. I got a bad rap with the counselors because I kept finding bugs in their instructions and tests.

When is your favorite holiday?

A wash between the 4th of July and Thanksgiving probably.

Hello, welcome to this part of my journey on earth as a Human Being :tm: I've been dabbling with computers since 1996 and have amassed an incredible amount of chrome tabs that I will never close. I work on the feature success team building features, hopefully successfully.

In your professional or personal life, if you have:

1. Pushed/Pulled a package from GitHub
2. Accepted a dependabot PR
3. Run workflows on GitHub Actions
4. Connected to a PlanetScale Database.

You’ve used code that I’ve written and services I’ve built.

In a sentence:

I'm a software engineer, writer, polyglot programmer, career mentor, math enthusiast, ski bum, rock climber, amateur powerlifter, plant dad, jazz pianist, language nerd, and data science dilettante.

In a few more sentences:

I've always been fascinated by the intersection of creativity and constraints. I love understanding how systems work and exploring the grey areas between well-defined spaces.

In college I studied physics and music – the physics helped me understand how the world worked, and then music helped color it in. I don't do a lot of physics anymore, but I still play music regularly.

Professionally, I'm a startup veteran who loves building the foundational systems upon which successful companies are built. I've worked at 3 unicorn startups so far across a variety of industries – health tech, robotics, fintech, and product analytics – and I'm eager to build another!

Enthusiast for all AI, self-taught Python programming, home automation and aviation.

They say Irish people have "the gift of the gab" or in other words, the ability to talk a lot, so naturally a career in Sales felt right.

I try to spend as much time as I can outside playing sport, hiking, running, golfing (very badly) , and more recently have taken up Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and currently a 1 stripe white belt (A.k.a a total noob) - will update once I have been promoted to Blue Belt!

Being Irish, and travelling extensively, means I have met people from all walks of life, and people have a tendency to feel comfortable around Irish people, which has led to me making friends across the world - this friendly and approachable nature is what has allowed me to have success in my sales career so far. I'm actively trying to break the mold and bad rep Salespeople have, especially in Tech!

My universe is currently centered around my Golden Retrevier puppy, Murphy, who is 7 months old at the time of writing this!

My role at Posthog is to help customers get the most from the entire platform, and support them as Posthog continues to add more products to our lineup!

I was born in Madrid and here I am after 33 years writing this little bio so you can get to know me better.

My first contact with computers was at 11 when I was gifted a Pentium 3 for Christmas. I remember spending some time with it every day, even though I did not have Internet access until several years later. It's hard to imagine myself not accessing Internet from any computer device today!

Before joining Posthog I've been working as a Data Engineer in several companies. I remember that I started working with data almost accidentally... and here I am, helping with ClickHouse a couple of years later!

On the personal side of things, I really like to spend time in nature, doing some calisthenics (beginner level though, my challenge is achieving the first muscle-up), a bit of reading (fantasy and historical novel mostly) and now trying to improve my cooking skills.

I'm Irish, an electronic/computer engineer, a decent skier, a passable woodworker, a bad photographer and a worse guitarist. I've been writing code since I was about 13, when my father made the mistake of letting me put ubuntu on the family computer, although I did take a brief detour through hardware design in university. After seeing up close how fast modern chips are, I decided to spend my career on "this shouldn't take this long", although more recently I've also added "this shouldn't crash this often" to the hit list.

After university I spent a couple of years wandering around Ireland, then moved to the Austrian alps for a while, and now the Finnish lake-lands. These days, I spend my time building furniture, learning Finnish (slowly!), taking pictures with cameras older than me, and, of course, trying to make posthogs data plane more reliable, lower latency, and up to whatever mad experiment the product folks dream up next.

When I first discovered programming, it was like having superpowers. I could create things and make the pixels look exactly as I wanted - imagination was the limit. I could then keep optimising things. Learn something new, apply the new superpowers, celebrate the results, repeat!

Fast forwarding a decade of using this superpowers, with a stopover at UCL (where I met other epic builders), I'm now building awesome things at PostHog.

Things that keep me away from the screen include:

• Reading
• Football (both playing and watching COYG!)
• Hiking
• Discovering new restaurants every weekend

After spending most of my adult life digging into data, I decided to switch to product management only to realize that I'm still mainly just looking at charts and writing SQL. I'm definitely not mad about it, and I'm happy to complement this by occasionally speaking with a human being about our product. So if you have something to say, let me know!

Outside of work, you can mostly find me on a plane en route to either the beach or the Alps. I love snowboarding, collecting special edition books (also reading them), and all dogs.

Where am I from? Who even knows!

I was born in Scotland to English parents, grew up in Belgium at an international school, went to the University of York UK, spent an industrial placement year in Germany, worked in Bath UK for 10 years, and now I live in Ireland.

How did I get here?

Well…when I was little, I wanted to be a vet. When I was older, I thought about studying genetics and psychology or maybe bio-chemistry. In the meantime, I was spending a bunch of my free time in the theatre designing and constructing sets, plus working backstage on the sound design. I worked at both the National Student Drama Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

So, what actually did happen?

Inspired by my theatre work, I studied Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems and discovered that I thoroughly enjoyed our programming-related modules.

During my career I have been a dev, a technical analyst, and technical support person. I have experienced companies of various sizes and have experienced two company acquisitions. I love problem solving - and helping people and improving the way we work is my jam.

In my spare time you'll find me playing games (tabletop, computer or console), painting PostHog logos on my nails, or wrapped up with my latest crochet project.

PHP was my first venture into "programming," which I learned in middle school to build a web portal for my scout troop and that I never actually launched.

From there, I ventured into C, and after a lot of memory leaks, tried my hand at assembly language. The memory leaks were gone (I think), but it was tedious and I spent three months getting a microprocessor to work with a keypad an a magnetic sensor.

From there I dabbled in C# for a bit, convinced that Silverlight was going to be the way of the future, before moving back to PHP and eventually settling on JavaScript and Python.

It was clear no one would ever pay me to write code for a living, so I moved into sales.

Hopefully I never have to write a line of APEX.

My coding journey spans over 15 years, with the last 6 spent professionally crafting software. Before joining PostHog, I honed my skills at Wise and Prezi. In ancient times (or so it feels), I ventured into the startup world, doing everything from comparing grocery store prices to developing agricultural plant sensors.

After work, you'll find me training for my first triathlon, scaling walls at the bouldering gym, or tending to my urban jungle of 50+ plants. I'm also constantly furnishing and refurnishing my apartment, spending way too much time on Pinterest for inspiration. When I'm not doing that, I'm diving deep into longevity research – because who doesn't want to live long enough to set foot on Mars?

At PostHog, I'm excited to bring my diverse experience to help create products that users love – and maybe sneak in a few plant-care tips along the way.

I started programming in visual basic in college and realised immediately it was was really cool. Being a gamer also I went on to study Games Programming at university and realised pretty quickly that I should keep enjoying the hobby!

Pretty soon after that I broke into the world of tech and realised I could instead combine my programming skills with the customer service skills I gained from various jobs to do support engineering.

Since then I have found my passion lies in using my programming knowledge to deliver great customer support experiences, improve processes and automate workflows.

Hello! I'm Ben. Not to be confused with this Ben... or this Ben... I am originally from Winchester in the United Kingdom, but now reside in Massachusetts in the USA.

From an early age, I learned how to break various pieces of technology, mainly the family desktop computer. As a result I had to quickly learn how to fix them again. Getting older, I realized I could break things (and fix them) much easier using code and so my programming journey began.

My career started supporting the computer systems on Television Gameshows across the world, before moving into a business that provided broadcasting solutions for Sporting Events. Here I really fleshed out my knowledge of coding, developing a bespoke all-in-one support and scheduling system.

When not working on your tickets, you can find me viewing or partaking in various sports, tidying my sneaker collection or trying to introduce my American wife to British TV Panel Shows she has no interest in watching.

I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I earned an incomplete half-degree in Mathematics and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, although they don’t seem to hold much value now. I’ve been working with computers since I was 10 years old (my first website was created with Netscape Composer), and I haven’t stopped since.

I’m a big fan of San Lorenzo, a football (soccer) team from Argentina, and I’ve traveled to various countries to see them play, with my furthest trip being to Morocco in 2014 for the FIFA Club World Cup. I’ve also traveled abroad for concerts, and one of my hobbies is collecting books, including first editions, rare editions, proof copies, and signed copies.

I live with my wife, Belén, and our little dog, Cappuccina (though I’m not a fan of coffee, you can guess who chose her name).

P.S. I technically have a selfie with Bob Dylan.