Hi! I'm Cynthia.

I like going fast. I'm currently doing that at Runlayer where I lead marketing. I was the first formal marketing hire. Since I've joined we've already 3.5X ARR and the team.

Prior to that, I led marketing at Laravel. I was the second marketing hire and led the Laravel Cloud launch building out the initial site and hiring our first content, PMM and demand gen leads.

Earlier, I was employee ~150 at Vercel and part of the original marketing team. I ran the first-ever in-person Next.js Conf, overhauled our self-serve funnel, and optimized the site for inbound pipeline.

I started my career in sales ops and I'll forever be secretly in love with processes and systems.

I love AI and use Claude Code on the daily. I'm constantly tinkering and have built a few things:

• San Diego Summer Camp Finder My first fully vibecoded site, hosted on Laravel Cloud. I used an OpenAI API key to programmatically generate 75 images for it.
• Spinner Quiz What spinner verb are you?
• Great Decompression A collection of articles around the economic interests of my husband, Jordan McGillis.

Outside of work stuff, I live in San Diego, CA with the love of my life and our 3 kids. Life is good and only getting better.

Want more? Find me on X, the everything app or LinkedIn.