Jill Wetzler

Jill Wetzler is the Vice President of Engineering at Pilot, which is the largest provider of bookkeeping, tax preparation and CFO services for startups and small businesses. She is passionate about scaling organizations and their technology stacks through periods of high growth. Prior to Pilot, Jill was a Director of Engineering at Lyft since 2015 where she built out their Infrastructure Engineering organization and oversaw efforts to scale out their distributed architecture, including the development and release of Envoy Proxy in 2016. Jill also managed teams of engineers and data scientists in Twitter’s Data Products organization, and she has been both a lead engineer and manager of platform teams at salesforce.com starting in 2006. 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 in technical roles. She has founded and led a number of Employee Resource Groups throughout her tenure 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 under-indexed and underestimated employees. She advises a number of 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.