
The marketer behind MuleSoft's public-market chapter has made a career of translating difficult technology into a reason to care. At Redpanda, her new assignment is trust - the stubborn gap between an impressive AI demo and software a company will actually let near its data.

At Redpanda Data, Rachel Chavez works where time, trust and company priorities collide. Her operating philosophy is simple enough to remember and difficult enough to master: get the details, protect the humans and handle the ripples.