Kyle Ledbetter
Co-founder and CTO of Dreambase. Chasing the dream.
The 3D model on this page is a robot with six parts, one for each chapter of Kyle’s story, with a figure of Kyle in a cockpit in its chest.
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First graduating 3D animation class in Louisiana
I was born in Lafayette and grew up in Baton Rouge, where I went to LSU. Then I moved back to Lafayette, finished at UL Lafayette and built custom Flash websites as a partner at superMega Media.
Early open-source champion & entrepreneur in Austin
In 2003 I moved to Austin and started my own web design firm, Pixel Praise, which I ran until 2010. I pioneered Flash websites, then led UX for Joomla, which powered about 3% of the web.
Head of design for eBay’s technology team
In 2011 I joined eBay, based in Austin and traveling to San Jose, when BI and big data were new. I designed DataHub, an analytics hub that opened up 52 petabytes of data to analysts, data scientists and business users.
Global Head of UX transforming Teradata’s product & design culture
From 2015 to 2021 I was at Teradata in San Diego, rising from UX architect to global head of design. We built Covalent, ran research with 500+ customers, cut 17 personas to 6 and revamped the entire product suite for Fortune 500 analytics.
Founding hire for the world’s first AI governance platform
In 2021, before generative AI hit, I joined Credo AI as head of design while living in Galveston. I created the design system, UI patterns and original prototypes, and helped take the company from seed to Series A.
Co-Founder & CTO of AI-native analytics platform Dreambase
Andy Keil and I started Dreambase in 2024. Dreambase is your data team of agents, and we’re partnered with and backed by Supabase. In nine months we built and launched three products. I’m based in Austin, Texas.
