--- title: "Kyle Ledbetter: resume" description: "Co-founder & CTO of Dreambase (“Your data team of agents.”), which is partnered with and backed by Supabase. Previously founding head of design at Credo AI, global head of design at Teradata and head of design for eBay’s internal technology division. Based in Austin, Texas." canonical_url: "https://kyleledbetter.com/resume" last_updated: "2026-10-11" llms_txt: "https://kyleledbetter.com/llms.txt" --- > Markdown version of https://kyleledbetter.com/resume. Index of every agent-readable file on this site: https://kyleledbetter.com/llms.txt # Kyle Ledbetter Co-founder & CTO, Dreambase. - Email: [inquiries@kyleledbetter.com](mailto:inquiries@kyleledbetter.com) - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleledbetter - X: https://x.com/kyleledbetter - GitHub: https://github.com/kyleledbetter - Medium: https://kyleledbetter.medium.com/ - Full story and facts: https://kyleledbetter.com/agent ## 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 Newest first. Years come from Kyle or from his earlier site. If a year is missing, it isn’t stated here. ### Co-founder and CTO, Dreambase Since 2024 · Austin, Texas 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. ### Head of design (VP of design), founding hire, Credo AI 2021-2024 · Galveston, Texas 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. ### Director, then senior director, user experience (global head of design), Teradata 2016-2021 · San Diego, California 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. ### Principal UX architect, Teradata 2015-2016 · San Diego, California 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. ### Senior UX designer, MicroStrategy 2014 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. ### Principal UX designer, Sears Holdings 2013 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. ### Head of design, internal technology division, eBay From 2011 · Austin, Texas (traveling to San Jose, California) · Formal title: Principal usability engineer 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. ### UX lead, Joomla 2009-2011 · Austin, Texas 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. ### Partner, lead UI developer and designer, Pixel Praise 2003-2010 · Austin, Texas 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. ### Partner, lead UI developer, Capstone Media 2003-2005 · Austin, Texas Built online stores and communities for Austin businesses on Interchange (Perl) and Mambo (PHP), which later became Joomla. ### Partner, web designer and developer, superMega Media 2000-2003 · Lafayette, Louisiana Designed and built custom Flash websites in Lafayette. ## Education - LSU (Louisiana State University), Baton Rouge - UL Lafayette (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), where he finished in the very first graduating class of 3D animation in Louisiana ## Talks - **[How this AI-powered duo found PMF by building 3 products in 9 months](https://suprainsider.substack.com/p/59-how-this-ai-powered-duo-found)** 2025 · Podcast · Supra Insider podcast, episode 59 With Andy Keil, Dreambase co-founder. How Kyle and Andy Keil found product-market fit by building and launching three products in nine months. Links: [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFkApEZi9o&t=3663s) · [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6TMmn1S1ATCD4U4brZowMI) · [Listen on Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/supra-insider/id1737704130) - **[Agency Over AI Agents](https://speakerdeck.com/player/d69bea57470d40dca122c3f2640f5943)** 2024 · Talk · World Design Policy Conference, part of World Design Capital San Diego + Tijuana How to keep human agency as AI advances. The talk covers risk management beyond compliance, how communities are adapting and governance frameworks that keep people in control. Links: [View the slides on Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/player/d69bea57470d40dca122c3f2640f5943) - **[Augmented Design at the Speed of AI](https://speakerdeck.com/player/0a549ac341fe4f1184e33d3109398254)** 2024 · Talk · DDX San Diego · San Diego Panel: “Augmented Creativity & Innovation: How does role and processes change?”, with Sebastian Gier, DDX; Morgan Quinn, Google Gemini; Benjamin Kuhn, Mercedes-Benz. How AI is changing design right now, and how top teams speed up while keeping creative control. Links: [View the slides on Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/player/0a549ac341fe4f1184e33d3109398254) · [DDX San Diego](https://www.ddxconference.com/sandiego/) - **[UX keynote at Teradata Universe](https://players.brightcove.net/pages/v1/index.html?accountId=1222253929001&playerId=default&videoId=6097709549001&mode=iframe)** 2019 · Keynote · Denver, Colorado Audience: 2,000 customers in the room, plus thousands more streaming online. The Teradata UX team’s work, presented on stage to 2,000 customers, including the voice of the customer, dark mode and developer.teradata.com. Links: [Watch the keynote recording](https://players.brightcove.net/pages/v1/index.html?accountId=1222253929001&playerId=default&videoId=6097709549001&mode=iframe) - **[We Feel The Need, The Need For Speed](https://www.slideshare.net/SanDiegoAMA/kyle-ledbetter-scott-robinson-need-for-speed)** 2019 · Talk · Art of Marketing conference, San Diego chapter of the American Marketing Association · San Diego With Scott Robinson, CEO of Freshform. Where UX, CX and digital marketing converge, told with a Top Gun theme while the new Top Gun was filming in town. Links: [View the full presentation on SlideShare](https://www.slideshare.net/SanDiegoAMA/kyle-ledbetter-scott-robinson-need-for-speed) · [2019 Art of Marketing conference](https://sdama.org/events/2019-art-of-marketing-conference/) - **[Building Angular Material Enterprise Web Apps](https://soundcloud.com/method-matters/tp008-kyle-ledbetter)** Podcast · Tech People podcast, episode 8, from Gistia With Carlos Taborda, CEO of Gistia (host). Why Kyle’s team chose Angular and Material Design for Covalent, and why he hired designers who could also build. Links: [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/method-matters/tp008-kyle-ledbetter) · [Episode page and transcript (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210803211217/https://www.gistia.com/insights/episode-8-kyle-ledbetter) - **[Building Enterprise Web Apps on Angular-Material](https://speakerdeck.com/kyleledbetter/building-enterprise-web-apps-on-angular-material)** 2016 · Talk · UX + Dev Summit Why Material Design works for enterprise apps, and why speed to productivity (functional UI in one sprint) is the most important metric. Links: [View the slides on Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/kyleledbetter/building-enterprise-web-apps-on-angular-material) ## Writing - **[Data Refinement is the Missing Layer for AI Agents in Software Factories](https://medium.com/dreambase-ai/data-refinement-is-the-missing-layer-for-ai-agents-in-software-factories-bc566753e990)** Dreambase on Medium · 2026 · Dreambase years Why AI agents need refined company data: defined KPIs, trusted metrics and reusable datasets, with the definitions and history behind them, shared by people and their agents. - **[Agents Need a Data Factory](https://x.com/kyleledbetter/status/2105385508469899403)** X · 2026 · Dreambase years Kyle’s case for a data factory for agents, with the same quality loops as a software factory, refining raw data into business metrics and knowledge. Also published on the Dreambase blog. - **[Agent Research is the new User Research](https://medium.com/dreambase-ai/agent-research-is-the-new-user-research-914ebdd29808)** Dreambase on Medium · 2026 · Dreambase years How to run user research with a panel of AI agents, from interviews and message tests to the listings, landing pages and interfaces agents need. - **[Dreambase blog](https://dreambase.com/blog)** Dreambase · Dreambase years Product updates, tutorials and posts about Dreambase’s AI-native analytics for Supabase, many of them by Kyle. - **[It’s ok to dream again.](https://aliases.co/blog/its-ok-to-dream-again)** Aliases blog · Dreambase years - **[Our Top 5 Image Generation Models](https://aliases.co/blog/top-5-image-generation-models-on-replicate-com)** Aliases blog The Aliases team’s top five image generation models on Replicate. - **[Generative AI for Designer-Developers: Supercharge Your Workflow with ChatGPT, Midjourney, and beyond!](https://kyleledbetter.medium.com/generative-ai-for-designer-developers-supercharge-your-workflow-with-chatgpt-midjourney-and-ab171a1de4f5)** Medium · Credo AI years How designer-developers can speed up their workflow with ChatGPT, Midjourney and other generative AI tools. - **[Designing Truly Human-Centered AI](https://web.archive.org/web/20230322175232/https://www.credo.ai/blog/designing-truly-human-centered-ai)** (archived copy; the original link is dead) Credo AI blog · Credo AI years An introduction to human-centered AI (HCAI), a responsible AI method for anyone building or using AI systems. - **[R.A.D.A.R.: UX Design Wrapped with Architecture & Research](https://kyleledbetter.medium.com/r-a-d-a-r-ux-design-wrapped-with-architecture-research-f9a507e83f56)** Medium · Teradata years The process Kyle’s Teradata UX team used so every UX request was researched with real users, architected, usability tested and benchmarked. - **[A Renewed Focus on User Experience at Teradata](https://web.archive.org/web/20201020034712/https://www.teradata.com/Blogs/A-Renewed-Focus-on-User-Experience-at-Teradata)** (archived copy; the original link is dead) Teradata blog · Teradata years - **[Embracing the Darkness: Vantage Developer](https://www.teradata.com/blogs/embracing-the-darkness-vantage-developer)** Teradata blog · Teradata years The developer experience release for Teradata Vantage, dark mode included. - **[Announcing Covalent: An Open-Source Angular 2.0 Material UI Platform by Teradata](https://medium.com/covalent-ui/announcing-covalent-an-open-source-angular-2-0-material-ui-platform-by-teradata-ea77776e75cd)** Covalent on Medium · Teradata years The launch of Covalent, Teradata’s open source UI platform built on Angular and Material Design. - **[9 reasons why we’re doubling down on Material Design for our enterprise web apps](https://kyleledbetter.medium.com/why-we-re-doubling-down-on-material-design-for-our-enterprise-web-apps-ce7d36d498db)** Medium · Teradata years Nine reasons Kyle’s Teradata team chose Material Design for its enterprise web apps. [More posts on Medium](https://kyleledbetter.medium.com/) Last updated October 11, 2026 (2026-10-11).