# Divanny Lamas

> Divanny Lamas is a Harvard-educated Latina technologist who co-founded and led Transposit as CEO, building a DevOps process orchestration platform that raised $50.4M and famously staffed 50% female engineers. Before Transposit, she spent seven years scaling Splunk's billion-dollar sales operation across product management, customer success, and sales engineering. She is also a managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures and an advisor at cray.vc, bringing operator instincts to early-stage enterprise bets in Palo Alto.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Transposit; Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures
- **Organizations:** Transposit, Sutter Hill Ventures, cray.vc, South Park Commons
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** A.B. in Government and Computer Science, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Transposit and raised $50.4M across three funding rounds from Sutter Hill Ventures and Altimeter Capital, Helped scale Splunk's billion-dollar sales organization over seven years across multiple leadership roles, Built Transposit's engineering team to 50% female - a rare achievement in enterprise DevOps

## Career timeline

- **~2012** — IT help desk at Harvard; internship at Evernote - caught the startup bug
- **~2013** — Early career role at Google
- **~2014** — Joined Splunk in product management and sales engineering
- **~2015** — Spoke at Strata + Hadoop World on 'Big data 2.0 democratizes machine learning for Wall Street' at Context Relevant (VP Products & Marketing)
- **~2016-2017** — Co-founded and ran a machine learning startup for financial services - described as 'a complete disaster'
- **~2017** — Joined Sutter Hill Ventures as managing director
- **2019** — Co-founded Transposit and became CEO; company builds DevOps process orchestration platform
- **2021** — Transposit raises funding; platform enables interactive runbooks and automated incident management
- **2022** — Featured in Authority Magazine 'Inspirational Women Leaders of Tech' series
- **2023** — Presented at KubeCon CloudNativeCon on AI-powered incident management; Transposit total funding reaches $50.4M
- **2024** — Appeared on Screaming in the Cloud podcast on human-AI collaboration in automation
- **2025** — Listed as advisor at cray.vc; member at South Park Commons in Palo Alto

## Achievements

- Co-founded Transposit and raised $50.4M across three funding rounds from Sutter Hill Ventures and Altimeter Capital
- Helped scale Splunk's billion-dollar sales organization over seven years across multiple leadership roles
- Built Transposit's engineering team to 50% female - a rare achievement in enterprise DevOps
- Spoke at Strata + Hadoop World 2015 on democratizing machine learning for financial services
- Simultaneously served as startup CEO and managing director at a top-tier VC firm
- Generated Fortune 100 customer inquiries from AWS re:Invent booth while Transposit was still in stealth mode
- Championed diversity as a core business advantage - not a check-box
- Recognized as an Inspirational Women Leader of Tech by Authority Magazine (2022)

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Active on X (@divlams), benchmarking AI models and sharing tech observations
- **2025-01** — Listed as advisor at cray.vc; member at South Park Commons
- **2024-03** — Featured on Screaming in the Cloud podcast discussing human-AI collaboration in automation
- **2023-10** — Presented Transposit's AI-powered incident management at KubeCon CloudNativeCon 2023

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/divanny/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/divlams

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Last updated: 2026-05-13