Rafe Colburn
Chief Product & Technology Officer at Depop
Rafe Colburn is a seasoned engineering leader with deep experience building and scaling teams in fast-moving, high-growth environments. As Chief Product & Technology Officer at Depop, he led efforts to enhance experimentation, improve platform capabilities, and leverage machine learning to drive meaningful product innovation. Before that, at Etsy, he oversaw key areas including Ads, Data Engineering, and MarTech, helping evolve the company’s technology to support its expanding marketplace. Rafe is passionate about technical leadership, organizational design, and fostering engineering cultures that prioritize learning, autonomy, and impact. He brings a candid, pragmatic approach to building high-performing teams and solving complex challenges at scale.
Engineering owns velocity
In this talk, I'll explore what engineering leaders need to do to credibly own velocity and deeply align their work with the company strategy.
