# Team

We're deeply passionate about making developers more productive.

We're based out of San Francisco, California. Prior to starting BuildBuddy — we collectively spent over a decade at Google building products across Android, Google Maps, Search, Google Assistant, Google Cloud, AdWords, and Area 120.

## Keith Smiley

Previously Senior Staff Software Engineer at Modular. Maintainer of Bazel's iOS support, creator of the Mobile Native Foundation & contributor to LLVM.

## Grace Chuang

Previously Finance, Operations, and Product Strategy at Google & J.P. Morgan. Studied Commerce, Finance and Marketing at UVA.

## Lulu Zhang

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Google & Thumbtack. Studied Computer Science at University of California, Irvine.

## Dan Stowell

Previously Director of Engineering at Vercel, Head of Engineering at Replit, and Principal Engineer at Spotify. Studied Computer Science at Cornell & Brown.

## Tyler Williams

Previously Staff Software Engineer at Google — 7 years. Studied Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT.

## Brandon Duffany

Previously Software Engineer at Google. Studied Computer Science at Cornell.

## Zoey Greer

Previously Software Engineer at Google. Studied Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

## Iain Macdonald

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Google — 10 years. Studied Software Engineering at McGill.

## Jim Hollenbach

Previously Staff Software Engineer at Google — 10 years. Studied Computer Science at MIT.

## Vanja Pejovic

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Google — 12 years. Worked on Google's internal remote build execution service. Studied Computer Science at Rutgers.

## Tyler French

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Uber. Maintains Bazel's rules_go and gazelle. Studied Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

## Fabian Meumertzheim

Previously Software Engineer at Code Intelligence. Maintainer of Bazel's rules_go and gazelle. Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of Bonn.

## Son Luong Ngoc

Previously Senior DevOps Engineer & SRE at Qarik, Booking.com, Lazada & Alibaba.

## George Li

Previously Head of APAC Sales Engineering at Looker (acquired by Google Cloud). Studied Computer Science at UVA.

## Vadim Berezniker

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Google — 7 years. Studied Computer Science at Stony Brook.

## Siggi Simonarson

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Google — 6 years. Studied Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

## Maggie Lou

Previously Software Engineer at Thumbtack. Studied Computer Science at Northwestern.

## Emeriti

## Pari Parajuli

Software Engineering Intern studying Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.

## Brentley Jones

Previously Staff Software Engineer at Lyft & Target. Maintainer of Bazel's rules_apple and rules_swift.

## Our investors

## Interested in joining our growing team?

[View open positions](https://www.buildbuddy.io/careers)