Oscar Salazar
Employed by Uber from: 2009 to 2011
Position at Uber: CTO, third cofounder
Where he is now: Salazar was Uber's founding CTO and third cofounder alongside Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick. Salazar and Camp attended business school together; the pair built Uber's first prototype with another school friend, Conrad Whelan. Salazar departed the company amicably soon after it launched. Now, Salazar is the chief product and technology officer at Ride, a logistics startup that's focused solely on commuters and carpooling.
Austin Geidt
Employed by Uber from: 2010 to present
Position at Uber: Head of Global Expansion and Head of Process
Where she is now: Geidt started at Uber as an overdressed intern and employee number 4, and says she struggled for the first months. At first, her job wasn’t well-defined, and saw her moving from handing out flyers to cold passersby to cold-calling drivers. She also took customer service calls at 3 in the morning. But now she heads up Uber’s global expansion, which has spread to over 300 markets and 56 countries.
Curtis Chambers
Employed by Uber from: 2010 to present
Position at Uber: Director of Engineering
Where he is now: Before Uber, Chambers helped build Expensify, the popular online expense reports startup, as well as contributing to open-source Drupal and Django. He’s stayed as the Director of Engineering since he came to Uber, though on LinkedIn he describes himself as Uber’s “secret weapon.”
Ryan Graves
Employed by Uber from: 2010 to present
Position at Uber: CEO, general manager
Where he is now: Graves previously worked as a database administrator position at General Electric before landing a stint at Foursquare that he acquired by working for them for free after the company initially turned him down. He tweeted at Travis Kalanick, looking for a job, and the rest is history. Five years later, Ryan Graves is still with Uber. Now, he's head of global operations.
Garrett Camp
Employed by Uber from: 2009 to present
Position at Uber: Co-founder
Where he is now: After co-founding Uber with Travis Kalanick, Garrett Camp created his own startup studio called Expa. Today, Expa works with founders to help them build and grow their own companies. Camp is now Uber's chairman and advisor. The restaurant reservation app Reserve was launched from Expa, raising $15 million.
Jordan Bonnet
Employed by Uber from: 2010 to present
Position at Uber: Senior Engineer
Where he is now: Bonnet was the third engineer to join Uber and the first mobile (both iOS and Android) engineer. He’s worked on various launches including Uber + Spotify.
Domenic Narducci
Employed by Uber from: 2011 to present
Position at Uber: Software Engineer
Where he is now: Narducci joined Uber as an intern back when it was still UberCab.com—before San Francisco forced the name change. Since then he’s moved around between different teams, and is currently the lead tech on the driver technology platform under the mobile team.
Scott Munro
Employed by Uber from: 2011 to present
Position at Uber: Technical Program Manager - Realtime platform
Where he is now: Munro started his career as a banking analyst, but transitioned to business development with the iOS development service Catappult before starting at Uber. He has moved up in operations as the company has grown works with the engineering team on Uber's dispatch and realtime systems.
Ryan McKillen
Employed by Uber from: 2010 to present
Position at Uber: Software Developer/Engineering lead
Where he is now: McKillen is currently building Uber’s new engineering team in New York City, although his Twitter profile still nostalgically shows a cover photo of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
Conrad Whelan
Employed by Uber from: 2010 to present
Position at Uber: Engineering Manager
Where he is now: Whelan was Uber’s first engineer and worked on “everything and the kitchen sink” after moving to San Francisco from his native Calgary, Canada. He built the sign-up flows that allowed Uber to actually have any users. After the Uber launch, he worked on optimizing the dispatch algorithms, but now is responsible for building out a full product development team in the Netherlands.
Rachel Holt
Employed by Uber from: 2011 to present
Position at Uber:General Manager, Washington, D.C.
Where she is now: After getting an MBA from Stanford, Holt had decided to move across the country to D.C. to be with her boyfriend (now husband). She answered a job listing to launch Uber in DC and 10 days later after she arrived, Uber did its first DC ride. The market turned out to be one of Uber’s most combative, and the first where they had any regulatory issues. But Holt has stayed, continuing as the General Manager for DC.
Travis Kalanick is still Uber's CEO.
Employed by Uber from: 2009 to present
Position at Uber: CEO, co-founder
Where he is now: Five years after Uber's launch in San Francisco, Kalanick is still at the company he helped found. Today, he's worth $5.3 billion.
