Virtual AMA with Shepherd's Eng Team: Mo, Angelina, Sydney & Jenny!
In this low-key virtual AMA, we’re chatting with the eng team at Shepherd! Here's who will be joining us:
Mo El Mahallawy, a former engineer at Airbnb, who went on to co-found Shepherd, a YC-backed startup reinventing commercial construction insurance!
Angelina Quach, Engineering Manager at Shepherd
Sydney Rivers, Software Engineer at Shepherd
Jenny Golden, Product Lead at Shepherd
The Leopard & Shepherd Connection: Lexi and Mo first met in On Deck back in 2020, when he was just starting to explore what would become Shepherd!
Why We're So Excited to Partner with Shepherd:
Since launching in 2021, Shepherd has grown rapidly in San Francisco and recently announced their Series A (they've raised > $20m to date)!
They are now a team of 42 (Eng Team Size: 13) and approximately 40% of the company consists of women (!!!!!) (Gender Ratios in Eng: 3/13!), and they are growing their engineering team!
What We'll Cover:
Why Mo left big tech to build in an overlooked (but massive) industry: construction insurance
How the engineering, product and underwriting teams work together to solve real problems for their customers
What’s next for Shepherd post-Series A, and how they’re thinking about product, hiring, and momentum
Check this page as well as the c-leopard-community-updates Slack channel for updates (Lexi likes to blab as she plans lol). If you need slack access, email gem@leopard.fyi and lexi@leopard.fyi.
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