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Our Team
We are a team of entrepreneurs and systems engineers who've been working on starting companies and building scaleable infrastructure for over 20 years. We also have amazing families behind the scenes supporting us so we can do what we do.

Tommy McClung
Co-founder of CarWoo!, YC s2009 which was acquired by TrueCar (CTO/CPO). Founder IMSafer. Software Engineer at RLX Technologies.

Erik Landerholm
Co-founder CarWoo!, Former SVP and Chief Architect at TrueCar. Co-founder, IMSafer. Software Engineer at RLX Technologies.

David Giffin
Early software engineer at Etsy, former SVP Infrastructure at TrueCar. Co-founder, IMSafer. Software Engineer at RLX Technologies.

Matt Carter
Matt Carter is the CMO of Release. Matt has spent the majority of his career marketing products and building communities that help developers turn their ideas into software.

Jeremy Kreutzbender
Jeremy can be found around the internet as j_kreutzbender or jer-k. He enjoys working with Ruby & Rails, Elixir & Phoenix, Docker, and DevOps topics when it comes to programming. He is a dog dad to Cliff, a dachshund, enjoys hiking and being outdoors as well as playing video games.

Regis Wilson
Second most humble engineer in the company. Author, comedian, connoisseur, professional poker player, and voted most well-liked by J.D. Powers and Associates several times in a row.

Jon Burns
Even though he relocated to the Bay Area, Jon remains an avid Boston sports fan. His guilty pleasure is the band Phish, who he's seen over 100 times. Jon is one of the first business developers to join Release, having done so shortly after their Series A.

Nick Busey
Open source developer, bike/board rider, music maker, brewer, gamer, husband, dog dad.

Jay Stotz
Former co-founder & CTO of Springboard Retail. 15+ years of experience as a software developer, architect, and engineering leader. Enjoys working with Ruby, Go, TypeScript, and Kubernetes among many other technologies. Pet dad to rescue pups Penny & Cashew and cats Boris & Dolly.

Jon Dalberg
I've done things - some I'm not so proud of.

Jon Nance
Jon's love and support to go over the top to help his teammates and customers show's his true character outside of the office as well. He's an avid Baseball watcher, Soccer & Disc Golf player, and Dog dad to a pit/lab mix named Roo.

Michael Nunes
Construction laborer turned software developer. I enjoy building things whether that be on a computer writing code or with my hands. I play piano and like hanging with my cat, Rainbow.

Ian Erickson
Software engineer and bay area transplant for nearly a decade, recent TypeScript + GraphQL enthusiast. I'm a native Oregonian and graduated from OSU (go beavs) with a BS in CS. Dog dad to an adorable adopted mini schnauzer named Walter.

Dave Willet
Long-time software engineer and architect. Triathlete, ultrarunner, golfer, Super Mario World enthusiast. Pet dad to two loving pit mixes and a brown tabby.

Leighton Roarke
Born and raised on the island of Oahu with a ferocious passion for family, friends, fun and laughter. Anyone who knows me, also knows I'm stuck at 30.

Matt Riley
Matt enjoys diving into complex challenges, driving innovation, and cheering on others' success. Outside of work he loves playing board games with friends and family, hanging with his dog Russ, cooking, and playing golf on the weekends.

Lindsey Simard
Lindsey joined Release in February 2022 after spending 4 years at BackerKit. She is a member of WNB.rb, a virtual community for women and non-binary Rubyists, and lives in Berkeley, CA with her dog, Pig F. William.

Michael Poon
Previously cofounded two companies, Twitch developer evangelist, Microsoft Azure engineer. Computer science at MIT. Former Warcraft 3 rank 1 in random teams.

Van Nguyen
Van has 7+ years of professional sales experience across financial services, investment, and tech verticals. In 2021, he started an endowment for underprivileged students who display academic excellence and resilience. Hobbies include: traveling, fitness, chess, poker, finance, and investing.

Andres Ortega
Andres is an experienced DevOps business developer, He earned his dual bachelors degrees at the University of South Carolina. Outside of work, Andres loves spending time with his family and salsa dancing.
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We offer competitive pay, benefits, and equity. We're a remote first company so work from home is just the way we do things. You'll be one of the early founding team members and help shape the company from the ground up.