Kayla Cunningham

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Partner at Peregrine Growth · Developer infrastructure

Peregrine Growth
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
10+ years experience
Wharton
English, Arabic
Investing
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Overview

19 years around startups; now investing in developer infrastructure. Sit on 2 boards. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in platform engineering
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Crypto token projects
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Replies on weekends

Skills
developer toolsopen sourceventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into seed developer infrastructure in MENA

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Platform engineering
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKdeveloper toolsopen sourceventure capital
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Experience

  1. Partner
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Peregrine Growth · 6 mo · Contract · San Francisco, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 35 a week to 1.
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Moved 60% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Engineering Manager
    May 2023 - Jan 2026
    Kaiser Permanente · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 32% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 3.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2021 - May 2023
    Snowflake · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Moved 67% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 6 to 39 engineers.
  4. Senior Android Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
    Boeing · 2 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Moved 67% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 4 to 29 engineers.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
    Adobe · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 43% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 4.

Projects

Platform engineering benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing venture capital and developer tools on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform
2022

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

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Education

  1. Wharton
    MBA, Business Administration
    2006 - 2008
  2. Rice University
    BA, Computer Science
    2002 - 2006

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