Meet the team

PostHog works in small teams. The Product Analytics team is responsible for building product analytics.

(Shockingly, this team prefers their pizza without pineapple.)

• Thomas Obermüller

  Software Engineer

  Munich

  

  

  Hi, my name is Thomas, I'm 35 years old and live in the beautiful city of Munich together with my girlfriend. I’ve been interested in programming and entrepreneurship since I was a small kid, originally wanting to become a game developer.

  After school, I studied mathematics and physics with the desire to better understand how the world works - do we have a free will or is everything deterministic? Richard Feynman surely left an impression on me. However it soon became clear that the answers I'd get wouldn’t fulfil my desire.

  I also always knew I didn’t want to pursue a traditional career (e.g. insurance) and towards the end of my bachelor I was looking to join a startup part-time. At a local event I quickly found out that technical people are in high demand. I met the founders of Freeletics, was immediately convinced, and joined them as CTO – full-time.

  After a meteoric rise to 120 people and multi-million users, it was time for a new adventure and I co-founded Workpath with two people from the local startup scene.

  Enterprise is fun for a while, but at some point I wanted to get back to building more consumer facing products. That’s when I decided to combine passion with job and founded Passion Climb, which I now maintain as a side project.

  Looking for more peace of mind and not being the ultimate decision maker for a bit, I joined the fantastic team at PostHog, which I have already used myself at Passion Climb. And thus, here I am, focusing on building a great UI and making a product people love.

  In my free time, I love climbing, being outdoors, vanlifing, cooking and great food in general.

• Julian Bez

  Full Stack Engineer

  Berlin

  

  

  I’m a seasoned software engineer known for my problem-solving prowess and collaborative spirit Over the past decade, I’ve developed a strong foundation in both backend and frontend technologies, including Python, Django, TypeScript, Elasticsearch, Celery, and React.

  My professional journey has taken me through the intricacies of designing robust architectures and managing multifaceted projects. I excel in streamlining engineering workflows and optimizing processes to ensure seamless project execution. Leading development teams has been a rewarding aspect of my career, where I’ve cultivated an inclusive and empowering environment that values every contribution.

  One of my core strengths is making pragmatic decisions that balance innovation with practicality. I’m committed to best practices and continuous improvement, always looking for ways to enhance the software development lifecycle. Staying current with industry trends and new technologies is a priority for me, driving my dedication to lifelong learning and skill expansion.

  I thrive in dynamic settings, whether it’s kickstarting new projects from the ground up or diving into established ones. My ability to quickly adapt and bring fresh perspectives to product design and functionality sets me apart. I’m passionate about creating user-centric solutions that are both effective and elegant, ensuring that the end product not only meets but exceeds expectations.

  In essence, I’m a full-stack developer with a rich experience in guiding small to mid-sized projects for diverse clients. I bring creativity, efficiency, and a collaborative mindset to every team I join.

• Zach Waterfield

  Growth Engineer

  Toronto

  

  

  I grew up with little technology in my household. I spent my summers at the farm driving tractors and yelling at people for eating too many berries and my winters at the ski hill teaching people how to roll down the hill.

  I went to the University of Waterloo to study Computer and Electrical Engineering. When I chose the program, it was 1. For the electrical part - I thought I wanted to go into Hydro and 2. a total guess on what school to go to. I can honestly say I don't know why I chose Waterloo. I was one of few out of 500+ students in my class that didn't know how to code. When we got our first project in C#, and it asked us to write a program that outputted a user-entered string to the console, I was lost. It took me days to figure it out. Googling "what is a string" didn't help. But once I did. I fell in love. I was super lucky to have chosen Waterloo because it gave me the opportunity to work across a bunch of companies with their coop program, everything from a small YC company to a Fortune 500 company.

  I've built everything from real estate CMS's (early in my career I thought I discovered what a CMS was and was going to make a massive business from it - little did I know we all have this realization) to a housemate matching system to Chrome extensions to make Zapier better to peripheral device integrations to surf the web.

  My current side projects include an open-source Grammarly alternative called scamable and a tool to analyze your blood tests over time.

  While at Waterloo, I started a company named Kopa (pka PadPiper), we went through the YC W19 batch. Since then, I've done some work with WorkOS and On Deck, and had a small bootstrapped saas app acquired. I also founded Zettlor and spent ~1.5 years building it.

  I dabble in investing and advising early-stage startups, check out more on my website. And I enjoy travelling - I've lived in Vancouver, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Porto, and Lima.

  These days, my time is spent training for a triathlon (joining the team ranks as a PostHog cyclist), sauna/ice bath sessions, playing poker, skiing, finding the best coffee in the city and spending time with my wife (Laura) and my puppy (Daisy).

• Sandy Spicer

  Product Engineer

  Oakland

  

  

  I don't love writing about myself and this is very freeform, and I'm drawing a blank on what to say, so I'm going to make up some questions and answer those instead.

  What is your favorite food

  Probably Roti Prata with a good mutton curry

  What is your favorite activity

  Downhill skiing, but it has been hard to find time for this as I had a baby recently. Hope to get back to it when the kids can do it too!

  When did you learn to code?

  Probably at a summer camp, don't remember the year. I got a bad rap with the counselors because I kept finding bugs in their instructions and tests.

  When is your favorite holiday?

  A wash between the 4th of July and Thanksgiving probably.

• Anirudh Pillai

  Software Engineer

  London

  

  

  When I first discovered programming, it was like having superpowers. I could create things and make the pixels look exactly as I wanted - imagination was the limit. I could then keep optimising things. Learn something new, apply the new superpowers, celebrate the results, repeat!

  Fast forwarding a decade of using these superpowers, with a stopover at UCL (where I met other epic builders), I'm now building awesome things at PostHog.

  Things that keep me away from the screen include:

  • Reading
  • Football (both playing and watching COYG!)
  • Hiking
  • Discovering new restaurants every weekend

• Anna Szell

  Product Manager

  Budapest

  

  

  After spending most of my adult life digging into data, I decided to switch to product management only to realize that I'm still mainly just looking at charts and writing SQL. I'm definitely not mad about it, and I'm happy to complement this by occasionally speaking with a human being about our product. So if you have something to say, let me know!

  Outside of work, you can mostly find me on a plane en route to either the beach or the Alps. I love snowboarding, collecting special edition books (also reading them), and all dogs.

• Nima Karimi

  Product Engineer

  Vancouver

  

  

  I got interested in coding as a kid when my uncle gave me a gigantic QBasic reference book as a gift. I didn't understand any of it and didn't even have a computer back then, but that was enough for me to start reading PC magazines and convince my parents to get me one. I built my first actual "app" with Multimedia Builder and then dipped my toes in coding with VB6. And from there, things just took off, leading me to where I am today.

  Other than the geeky stuff, I enjoy photography and, at some point, tried to pursue it as a profession (it didn't work out so well). You might also find me on a river fishing for Salmon when the season comes.

Roadmap & changelog

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