Damon Vestervand
Over 25 years building products and leading development teams, from early-stage startups to eight years at Uber. That history is what orbiteleven brings to the founders it works with.
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Building
Shipping full-stack web and mobile products since the early 2000s. Now building Spotta with agentic coding.
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Leading
Technical co-founder and CTO at Acter. Grew Uber's infrastructure UI team from 3 to 8 engineers.
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Scaling
Joined Uber as employee #201 and stayed as it grew from a handful of cities to worldwide.
Experience
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Spotta
- Founder 2025 – now
A mobile app (React Native, Expo, Supabase) that helps outdoor enthusiasts share condition reports and plan their next outing.
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Beyond Work
- Builder 2023 – 2025
Built the full-stack web app (Svelte, Next.js) for an AI workflow engine that takes tedious, repetitive work off enterprise teams.
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FuelVision
- Principal Engineer 2022 – 2023
Built a system (Go, React Native) that turns flight data recorder information into fuel-saving benchmarks for airline pilots.
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Acter
- CTO & co-founder 2021 – 2022
Set the technical vision, built the platform for teams working on global change initiatives, and hired and mentored the engineering team.
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Uber
8 years
- Senior Software Engineer 2019 – 2021
Built the Cornershop grocery integration and migrated Uber Eats' inventory and catalog systems.
- Engineering Manager 2017 – 2019
Led the UI team for infrastructure tooling. Grew it from 3 to 8 and moved it from an agency model to engineers embedded in product teams.
- Full-Stack Engineer 2013 – 2017
Employee #201, engineer #36. Built internal operations tooling, the rider profile web app, and Uber Central, a B2B ride-ordering platform.
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Earlier roles at New Signature, Coupa Software, and Deep Web Technologies.
Tools
- TypeScript
- React
- React Native
- Node.js
- Go
- Svelte
- Next.js
- Python
- Ruby on Rails
- Agentic coding
B.A., Computer Science — Cornell College
Full history on LinkedIn.