Jill Wetzler is a technology leader, advisor, and coach who has led engineering teams at companies like salesforce.com, Twitter, and Lyft. She was most recently the VP of Engineering at Pilot, the largest provider of bookkeeping, tax preparation, and CFO services for startups and small businesses in the US. She is experienced in scaling organizations and their technology stacks through periods of high growth, and she’s passionate about building equitable people-related programs with her HR partners.

Jill is a fierce advocate for building diverse technology teams and has authored several talks and articles related to building out inclusive organizational processes that support the development of underrepresented people and their managers. She has founded and led a number of Employee Resource Groups and was a founding member of Lyft’s Tech Diversity Working Group, which served to execute on initiatives that increase representation and development opportunities for a variety of demographics. She advises senior leaders at companies throughout the US and East Africa, and she is an advisor for Diversity Advocates, a professional learning community sponsored by the Kapor Center for Social Impact in her own city of Oakland. Jill completed her BS in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon in 2005.