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Kyle Ledbetter

Co-founder and CTO of Dreambase

Summary

Kyle Ledbetter is co-founder and CTO of Dreambase, an agentic analytics platform partnered with and backed by Supabase. He is based in Austin, Texas. He has led design teams for more than 20 years, including at eBay, Teradata and Credo AI, where he was a founding hire and head of design.

Experience

  1. Dreambase Austin, Texas

    Since 2024 Co-founder and CTO

    Co-founded Dreambase with Andy Keil. Dreambase (“Your data team of agents.”) is an agentic analytics platform partnered with and backed by Supabase. Earlier names from the same founding team include Aliases, Inc., Dream, Inc. and AskDream.ai.

  2. Credo AI Galveston, Texas

    2021-2024 Head of design (VP of design), founding hire

    Joined in 2021, before the seed round and before generative AI hit, while living in Galveston. Designed the world’s first AI governance, risk and compliance platform for some of the largest corporations in the world, and helped take the company from seed to Series A.

  3. Teradata San Diego, California

    2016-2021 Director, then senior director, user experience (global head of design)

    Led the API and UI platform teams, delivering enterprise single sign-on and identity, a SQL editor, an API catalog and developer.teradata.com. As senior director and global head of design, reported to the C-suite and built a centralized global UX organization for a 10,000-person company. Ran research with 500+ customers from 150+ Fortune 1000 companies, cut 17 personas down to 6 and redesigned the entire Teradata Vantage product suite for Fortune 500 analytics.

    2015-2016 Principal UX architect

    Created and championed Covalent, an open source UI platform built on Angular and Material Design and used by Teradata and Fortune 500 customers. Led research and design for a real-time streaming data platform and delivered Teradata’s first developer experience: REST APIs and docs alongside monitoring.

    • 2019 Gave the UX keynote at Teradata Universe. Presented the UX work on stage for 2,000 customers, with thousands more streaming online, including dark mode and the developer.teradata.com launch.
    • 2018 Launched #OneUX at Teradata. Opened all of Teradata up to user experience, starting with a UX Summit and three back-to-back design thinking workshops for UX practitioners, product managers, architects, services and support.

  4. MicroStrategy

    2014 Senior UX designer

    Helped redesign the world’s most popular BI product, with natural language and search as the interface. Introduced a voice-driven, natural language vision for analytics, with concepts that have since become standards and best practices.

  5. Sears Holdings

    2013 Principal UX designer

    Joined a small team tasked with saving Sears with analytics and data, revamping the analytics experience of a company founded in 1893. Built an enterprise analytics social network across all Sears Holdings companies, plus streaming ingestion and segmentation R&D with Docker, Kafka, Cassandra and MongoDB.

  6. eBay Austin, Texas (traveling to San Jose, California)

    From 2011 Head of design, internal technology division

    Led design for eBay’s entire internal technology division, based in Austin and traveling to San Jose, pioneering BI and big data. Designed DataHub, an analytics community and reporting hub that opened up 52 petabytes of data to analysts, data scientists and business users.

  7. Joomla Austin, Texas

    2009-2011 UX lead

    Led UX for Joomla, then the second-largest open source content management system in the world, powering about 3% of the web and millions of sites. Redid the whole admin UI and UX for accessibility, responsiveness and productivity.

  8. Pixel Praise Austin, Texas

    2003-2010 Partner, lead UI developer and designer

    Started his own web design firm and pioneered Flash websites. Pixel Praise became one of the premier Joomla development firms, with its own products: JoomlaPraise themes, TapTheme for mobile, the AdminPraise admin app and the ProjectFork project management suite. He introduced one- to two-week design sprints well before sprints were commonplace, and ran the firm until 2010.

  9. Capstone Media Austin, Texas

    2003-2005 Partner, lead UI developer

    Built online stores and communities for Austin businesses on Interchange (Perl) and Mambo (PHP), which later became Joomla.

  10. superMega Media Lafayette, Louisiana

    2000-2003 Partner, web designer and developer

    Designed and built custom Flash websites in Lafayette.

Education

Louisiana State University, then University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Finished at UL Lafayette, in Louisiana’s first graduating class of 3D animation

Talks

  1. 2025 How this AI-powered duo found PMF by building 3 products in 9 months Supra Insider podcast, episode 59
  2. 2024 Agency Over AI Agents World Design Policy Conference, part of World Design Capital San Diego + Tijuana
  3. 2024 Augmented Design at the Speed of AI DDX San Diego
  4. 2019 UX keynote at Teradata Universe Denver, Colorado
  5. 2019 We Feel The Need, The Need For Speed Art of Marketing conference, San Diego chapter of the American Marketing Association
  6. Building Angular Material Enterprise Web Apps Tech People podcast, episode 8, from Gistia
  7. 2016 Building Enterprise Web Apps on Angular-Material UX + Dev Summit

Writing

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