Erica has spent most of her career as a founder and executive operator prior to joining Redpoint in early 2021. Most recently, she served as COO of GitHub, where she was brought in to mature and scale the company following the Microsoft acquisition. She was fortunate to be a part of the GitHub Copilot launch as well as many others and drove global business expansion among other aspects of the business. Prior to GitHub, she co-founded Bitnami, which went through Y Combinator in 2013 and was acquired by VMware in 2019, as well as BitRock prior to that. She has also served on the board of the Linux Foundation, which shepherds over 200 core open source projects (including Linux and Kubernetes), since 2016. At Redpoint, Erica focuses on bringing her nearly 20 years of open source, infrastructure and developer tools experience to bear to support founders from the earliest days of building.

Ivan Burazin co-founded Codeanywhere, a pioneer in cloud development, back in 2009. Concurrently, he established Shift, a premier developer conference in Europe, which was later acquired by Infobip—a global communications cloud giant—in 2021. Following the acquisition, Ivan served on the executive board of this 4,000-person company and as the Chief Developer Experience Officer, where he oversaw global developer-oriented operations. In 2023, Ivan co-founded Daytona, a fast-growing open-source platform addressing the limitations of AI coding agents by enabling them to programmatically and securely interact with runtime environments. Backed by $7M in funding, Daytona empowers developers—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to utilize agents to their full potential.

Auriel Wright has pioneered production machine learning systems throughout the modern AI era—from advanced computer vision modeling at Harvard to generative AI at Google Brain and autonomous agentic modeling for Gemini. Most recently at Google DeepMind, she led Product for Gemini's self-coding Agentic Modelling effort, driving the development of next-generation reasoning and agentic capabilities on Gemini that enable transformative real-world applications.

Her contributions span foundational computer vision to state-of-the-art generative AI across Google Brain and DeepMind. She developed high-precision human detection models that underpin essential technologies, including Pixel Real Tone, Google Search, and Waymo's autonomous vehicle perception systems and has even earned a Cannes Lion award for her work on the Pixel Real Tone. She subsequently directed human alignment initiatives for leading generative models like NanoBanana and Imagen, impacting billions of users globally and enabling advanced human image editing capabilities. Her research on supervised fine-tuning data and rater optimization has been published at NeurIPS.

Before joining Google, Auriel was a Y Combinator-backed founder (W20). She is now an active angel investor in AI infrastructure and the rapidly evolving agentic systems space. She holds a Computer Science degree from Harvard.

Peter joined Upfront in 2023 after spending most of his career as a founder. Before Upfront, Peter co-founded Macro, a workflow automation company, and Hyper Travel, a corporate travel solution that was acquired by Tradeshift in 2016. Prior to Hyper Travel, Peter was an early employee at Venmo, where he worked as a software engineer and product manager.

He graduated from Princeton University with degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science. He is also a former YC founder (Summer, 2010) and member of South Park Commons.