# Tido Carriero

> Tido Carriero is a software engineer, product leader and Koala co-founder based in San Francisco. After early engineering work at Facebook, he helped build Dropbox for Business and led engineering, product, design and security at Segment. Koala joined Cursor in 2025; his public profiles now describe him as building at SpaceXAI.

- **Role:** Builder at SpaceXAI (public bio; specific title not stated)
- **Organizations:** SpaceXAI, Cursor, Koala, Segment, Dropbox, Facebook, Oso
- **Education:** BA in Computer Science, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Built the 15-engineer team that shipped the initial Dropbox for Business product., Eventually managed approximately 170 Dropbox engineers across four groups., Helped grow Segment engineering from roughly 10 to 55 in his first two years.

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Graduated from Harvard and joined Facebook; worked on Ads and later managed engineers on Pages.
- **2012** — Joined Dropbox, helped launch Dropbox for Business and later led product engineering.
- **2015** — Joined Segment as VP of Engineering.
- **2018** — Expanded into the chief product development officer role, overseeing engineering, product, design and security.
- **2020** — Segment was acquired by Twilio for $3.2 billion.
- **2021** — Co-founded Koala with Netto Farah and Matthew Shwery.
- **2025** — Koala announced a September 30 product sunset and its acquisition by Cursor; the core team joined Cursor.
- **2026** — Publicly appeared as Cursor VP of Engineering; subsequently described himself as building at SpaceXAI after Cursor joined SpaceX.

## Achievements

- Built the 15-engineer team that shipped the initial Dropbox for Business product.
- Eventually managed approximately 170 Dropbox engineers across four groups.
- Helped grow Segment engineering from roughly 10 to 55 in his first two years.
- Led product development at Segment through its acquisition by Twilio.
- Co-founded Koala and helped move its core team into Cursor.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — His August 14 public post described moving into the SpaceX organization after Cursor joined SpaceX; his bio now says he is building at SpaceXAI.
- **2026-05** — Presented on agent workflows across the software development lifecycle as Cursor VP of Engineering.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tido-carriero
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tidocarriero

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Last updated: 2026-10-25