Chelsea, New York

Derrick Staten

Product leader, two-time technical cofounder; NYC-based.

  1. Puerto Natales, Chilean Patagonia

    August 2026
    new york

    Ready to build

    Taking on 0-to-1 builds and fractional CTO work. An engineer's instincts and a product leader's judgment, for teams ready to ship.

  2. 2025–26
    new york

    Technical cofounder of Sightline

    B2B SaaS · restaurant supply chain

    Back to building from zero, this time as technical cofounder. I built the entire product solo: a Python data-ingestion pipeline on AWS, Postgres storage, and a Next.js web app on Vercel. It turns messy supply-chain data into insights for restaurant teams. Sightline's customers include national operators like Din Tai Fung and Bonchon. I built it over a year, then hired and onboarded the engineers who run it now.

    Sightline spend table breaking down weekly spend, cases, and cost per case by distributor and store
    Sightline price-index chart flagging a 61.5% divergence between an operator's unit price and the commodity index
    Sightline chart tracking overall supplier fill rate by week, with a dip to 61.92%

    Three views of Sightline OS, as published on sightlineos.com.

  3. Chelsea, New York

    2023–24
    miami new york

    Between builds

    After eight years at Branch Metrics I took a deliberate break, my first real pause since Stanford 10 years prior. I then spent 2024 in cofounder dating: meeting founders, pressure-testing ideas, looking for the right problem and the right partner. That search led to Sightline.

    The Vessel at Hudson Yards, at night
    Back in New York

  4. Pescadero, CA

    2015–23
    san francisco new york

    Early engineer, then head of product at Branch Metrics

    B2B SaaS · martech, adtech

    Joined Branch Metrics pre-Series A as one of the first few engineers. Spent two years in engineering building core product and Branch's first paid products, then moved into product for the next six, eventually running the team. As a PM, I led the Facebook attribution integration that anchored our ads business and became the blueprint for the Google, Snap, and TikTok integrations that followed. Eight years: from no revenue to $100M ARR; from a handful of people to 500+.

    The early Branch Metrics team
    The early Branch Metrics team

  5. San Francisco

    2014
    mountain view san francisco

    Technical cofounder of The League

    Consumer app · dating

    As the sole engineer, I built the entire product end to end: the iOS app and the LinkedIn/Facebook screening engine that became the app's signature. We launched in San Francisco in 2014 to the first thousands of users. The app was later acquired by Match Group for ~$30M.

    The League app, matches and profile screens
    Early days building The League

  6. Main Quad, Stanford University

    2013
    stanford

    Graduated from Stanford

    Transferred to Stanford and earned a BA in International Relations. I took three computer science classes. The third, "iPhone & iPad Programming," set me on the path to becoming a software developer.

    Hoover Tower at Stanford
    Stanford, class of 2013