Natalie Vais

Natalie started his career as a Sales Engineer at Oracle and eventually found her way to a small analytics startup in stealth mode at the time—Interana. Mark LaRosa hired me as his first Solutions Architect. Eventually, Natalie left Interana as Director of Product to join the Core Infrastructure team at Google. She wanted to see behind the curtain on the planetary scale systems running some of the most complex infrastructure in the world—Search and Ads. There, she helped build and scale products for internal developers at Google and later Google Cloud. Natalie is drawn to founders who have taken unconventional paths—or “career swerves" since seeing the same problem in very different contexts is one of the most valuable lessons she has learned and values in others.