Director of Software Engineering
Planet Labs


Amy Truong is currently a Director of Software Engineering at Planet Labs, responsible for building the software platform to deliver high-cadence, high-coverage satellite imagery to help make global change visible, accessible, and actionable. Amy is an experienced software engineering leader with 15 years of industry experience from various company growth stages and technical environments, including open source, infrastructure, and product development. Prior to Planet, Amy has built and led teams at Twitter, Rackspace, and IBM. She holds a BS degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. Amy currently resides in San Francisco with her husband and their 1 year old daughter.