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People and talent professionals in Developer tools
These ten HR, people operations and recruiting professionals have held people roles at developer tools companies. A reader can learn how these companies hire engineers, run HR programs and people systems, and support teams that build products for developers.
Professionals to explore
01—10Ashley M. Brounstein
LinkedInExperience: Director, People Business Partner · Harness
Director, People Business Partner at Harness since 2025 and former Senior Director, People Operations at Traceable by Harness (2024–2025). Also former Senior Director, People at OpenComp (2022–2024). The profile describes Harness as a software development company and describes building culture and processes that scale at early-stage, high-growth startups from series A to D.
Brian Bell
LinkedInExperience: Senior AI Transformation Manager, HR · GitHub
Senior AI Transformation Manager, HR at GitHub since 2026, and Co-Founder & CEO at MambaHR since 2026. Former Sr. HR Business Partner at Docusign (2025–2026), Director, Global People Business Partner at Asana (2023–2024) and Director, Business Partners, Head of DEI at Attentive (2021–2023). The profile describes HR business partnering inside fast-growing tech companies from Series A through IPO.
Denise Dela Montanye
LinkedInExperience: Talent Strategist · GitHub
Talent Strategist at GitHub since 2026. Former Member of Recruiting Staff at OpenAI (2025–2026), Talent Sourcing Manager at Zillow (2024–2025), Talent Sourcing Manager at Lyft (2022–2024) and Executive Recruiting Researcher at Lyft (2020–2022). The profile describes using data to plan people and talent strategy.
Devon Martin
LinkedInExperience: Program Manager People Systems · GitHub
Former Program Manager People Systems at GitHub (2024–2025); Senior Program Manager - People Operations at Samsara since 2025. Other listed roles include Project Manager - HR Technology and Standards, Employee Resource Center at Wayfair (2022–2023) and Senior Talent Acquisition Project Specialist at EF (2018–2021). The profile describes work in HR technology, people systems and systems implementation.
Jessica Shears
LinkedInExperience: PeopleOps · Supabase
PeopleOps at Supabase since 2022. Former Director, HR Business Partnering at Wildpack Beverage (2021–2022), Senior HR Manager at Colliers (2020–2021), HR Partner at icebreaker (2016–2020) and Global Talent Scout at icebreaker (2016). The profile describes striving to create the best work environments for employees.
Johanna Le
LinkedInExperience: HR Business Partner · Vercel
HR Business Partner at Vercel since 2025; the profile describes Vercel as a software development company that provides developers with frameworks, workflows and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web. Also HR Leader at StartupExperts since 2022, and former People Partner at OnePay (2023–2024) and Head of People at Ascend (2021–2022).
Kristine Ralls
LinkedInExperience: Senior Technical Talent Partner (Infra Cloud CI CD) · Vercel
Senior Technical Talent Partner (Infra Cloud CI CD) at Vercel since 2025, and former Senior Technical Talent Partner - Consultant at Gradle Technologies (2021–2025). Other listed roles include Vice President Of Recruitment (2016–2020) and Director Of Recruiting (2012–2016) at 32 Solutions Ltd. The headline describes executive and technical recruiting with expertise in developer tooling, AI and engineering hiring.
Margarita Sandomirskaya
LinkedInExperience: Technical Recruiter · Supabase
Former Technical Recruiter at Supabase (2022–2026); Talent & Operations Lead at Mastra since 2026. The headline reads DevTools Recruiter, and the profile describes a recruiter for developer tools. Other listed roles include Technical Recruiter at NEWHR — recruiting agency (Tech, Global) (2020–2021) and Technical Sourcer at Wrike (2019–2021).
Rachel Johnson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Human Resources Program Manager · Vercel
Senior Human Resources Program Manager at Vercel since 2026 and former Human Resources Program Manager at Vercel (2025–2026). The highlight describes leading the design of an employee retention and health program at Vercel, including identifying leading indicators of attrition. Other listed roles include HR Manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (2023–2025) and Head of People at Extole (2022–2023).
Sagit Rokach Shimshi
LinkedInExperience: Head of HR · Diversion - Scalable Version Control
Head of HR at Diversion - Scalable Version Control since 2025; the highlight describes leading all things HR at a startup that builds version control. Former HRIS Admin (2024–2025) and R&D Talent Acquisition (2022–2023) at JFrog, and Human Resources Manager Captain at Israeli Military Intelligence (2019–2022).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you assess engineering candidates for a company whose customers are developers? What has worked and what hasn't?
- 02Which people processes or systems did you have to rebuild as the company grew, and why?
- 03Tell me about a time you had to keep key engineers through a reorganization or an acquisition. What would you do differently?
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