Casey Aylward is a former software engineer who joined Pinterest through the acquisition of URX, an Accel-backed startup, giving her the rare experience of having been an early engineer inside a company her current firm previously funded before returning as a partner. She specializes in cloud-native infrastructure, open-source software, and security investments, and is known for incubating companies at the earliest stages and writing publicly about technical infrastructure topics as a content-forward voice in these ecosystems. Casey Aylward is a former software engineer who joined Pinterest through the acquisition of URX, an Accel-backed startup, giving her the rare experience of having been an early engineer inside a company her current firm previously funded before returning as a partner. She specializes in cloud-native infrastructure, open-source software, and security investments, and is known for incubating companies at the earliest stages and writing publicly about technical infrastructure topics as a content-forward voice in these ecosystems.