Dana Lawson - Netlify

About this episode

Dana Lawson discusses her career path and the evolution of Netlify's tools in the context of AI and developer experience.

This week we're joined by Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify. We talk about her journey from the US Army to leading engineering teams at companies like GitHub, New Relic, and now Netlify. We discuss Netlify's evolution from JAMstack to AI-powered developer tools, including Agent Runners and their MCP server. We also explore the concept of "Agent Experience" (AX) as a new paradigm alongside UX and DX, and how hiring practices are evolving in the age of AI. Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/ Agent Experience Hub: https://www.netlify.com/agent-experience/ agentexperience.ax: https://agentexperience.ax/ Agent Runners: https://www.netlify.com/platform/agent-runners/ Netlify MCP Server: https://docs.netlify.com/build/build-with-ai/netlify-mcp-server/ Dana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dglawson/ Dana's LeadDev Profile: https://leaddev.com/community/dana-lawson Dana's UXDX Profile: https://uxdx.com/profile/dana-lawson/

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett

Guest: Dana Lawson

Topics covered

• career journey
• AI in development
• JAMstack evolution
• Agent Experience
• hiring practices
• software engineering

Keywords

• Netlify
• Agent Experience
• AI-powered tools
• software development
• hiring practices
• JAMstack
• Agent Runners

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Netlify, GitHub, New Relic, Agent Experience Hub

Products: Agent Runners, Netlify MCP Server

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