Gail Frederick is CTO and SVP of Heroku (Salesforce) and stewards the opinionated magic that is Heroku’s developer platform. Prior to Heroku, Gail led engineering for Salesforce DX and was VP Engineering at eBay, where she was the 2019 winner of the John Donahoe Award, eBay’s highest leadership award, for building a new $3B annual GMB business by reinventing eBay’s developer ecosystem. She is a member of
2024 Curve Power List of 50 LGBTQ+ women and non-binary leaders. Formerly, executive advisory board member of Lesbians Who Tech, Business Governing Board member of OpenAPI Initiative at the Linux Foundation, and represented eBay at the founding of the Facebook-led Libra Initiative.