Natalie Vais brings an unusually deep technical background to venture investing, having spent her early career building databases and distributed systems as Director of Product at an analytics startup acquired by Twitter and later as Product Lead on Google Cloud Firestore, giving her firsthand experience with the infrastructure tools she now evaluates. She approaches investing with an engineering mindset, often breaking down complex infrastructure problems into structured system maps and focusing on what she calls "systems you can love"—technical products that hide complexity behind great user experiences for developers. Natalie Vais brings an unusually deep technical background to venture investing, having spent her early career building databases and distributed systems as Director of Product at an analytics startup acquired by Twitter and later as Product Lead on Google Cloud Firestore, giving her firsthand experience with the infrastructure tools she now evaluates. She approaches investing with an engineering mindset, often breaking down complex infrastructure problems into structured system maps and focusing on what she calls "systems you can love"—technical products that hide complexity behind great user experiences for developers.