# Thomas Schiavone

> Thomas Schiavone is a San Francisco startup operator who has spent his career on the bottoms-up, developer-first side of software. He was the first product manager at Twilio (around employee #15), went on to be COO at EasyPost and VP of Product at Sift, advised at Netlify, then founded and ran the SaaS CRM startup Calixa. He now leads Courier, the developer-first notifications platform that lets engineering teams design and deliver email, SMS, push, and chat through one API.

- **Role:** CEO at Courier
- **Organizations:** Courier, Calixa, Sift, EasyPost, Twilio, Netlify, AdMob
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Economics, Brown University
- **Known for:** Was the first product manager at Twilio, helping shape one of the defining developer platforms of the 2010s, Co-founded and was CEO of Calixa, a CRM purpose-built for product-led SaaS companies, Served as COO of EasyPost and VP of Product at Sift

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — First product manager at Twilio, around employee #15, when it was at $25-30k MRR
- **—** — Worked at AdMob
- **—** — Chief Operating Officer at EasyPost, a shipping API platform
- **—** — VP of Product at Sift, an AI-powered fraud decisioning platform
- **—** — Advisor and builder at Netlify
- **—** — Co-founded and led Calixa, a SaaS CRM startup
- **2024** — Became CEO of Courier

## Achievements

- Was the first product manager at Twilio, helping shape one of the defining developer platforms of the 2010s
- Co-founded and was CEO of Calixa, a CRM purpose-built for product-led SaaS companies
- Served as COO of EasyPost and VP of Product at Sift
- Now leads Courier, a developer-first multi-channel notifications platform

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Became CEO of Courier, the developer-first notifications platform based in San Francisco.

## Links

- Website: https://courier.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasschiavone/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thomasschiavone

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Last updated: 2026-06-04