> Markdown version of [/@dana-lawson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@dana-lawson). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Dana Lawson Netlify CTO scaling engineering, product, and design teams. ## About Dana Lawson leads engineering, product, and design at Netlify. She focuses on building teams that ship solid products while keeping the work environment fun for the people writing the code. Before Netlify, she spent over twenty years untangling technical problems and scaling engineering groups at companies like GitHub, Heptio, and New Relic. Having worn almost every hat across the product development lifecycle, she knows how to guide ideas from conception to reality. Her leadership approach centers on human connection. She also explores how open communities shape modern software, sharing real-world playbooks for building products on open source. ## Past Sessions ### World Congress 2026 Europe 路 July 8, 2026 Berlin, Germany - [Building on Open Source: The New Product Playbook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100031-building-on-open-source-the-new-product-playbook) 路 30 min 路 馃帴 Watch recording - [The Golden Age of Email: Owning the Inbox in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100128-the-golden-age-of-email-owning-the-inbox-in-the-age-of-ai) 路 30 min 路 馃帴 Watch recording - [Designing for Agents Will Make You Better at Designing for Humans](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100278-designing-for-agents-will-make-you-better-at-designing-for-humans) 路 30 min 路 馃帴 Watch recording ## Videos - [Designing for Agents Will Make You Better at Designing for Humans](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100278-designing-for-agents-will-make-you-better-at-designing-for-humans) 路 Dana Lawson - [The Golden Age of Email: Owning the Inbox in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100128-the-golden-age-of-email-owning-the-inbox-in-the-age-of-ai) 路 Dana Lawson, Nikhil Gandhi - [Building on Open Source: The New Product Playbook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100031-building-on-open-source-the-new-product-playbook) 路 C茅dric G茅gout, Dana Lawson, Michael "Monty" Widenius, Sebastian Kister, Ignacio Riesgo