Zeno Rocha

Zeno Rocha is the Founder & CEO at Resend. He is from Brazil and currently resides in San Francisco, California. He loves dark mode, open source, and side projects, and enjoys running, watching movies, and eating cheese.

Career

• Founder & CEO at Resend (January 2023 – Present)
• VP of Developer Experience at WorkOS (July 2021 – December 2022)
• Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, Inc (June 2018 – July 2021)
• Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, Inc (March 2015 – June 2018)
• Front-end Engineer at Liferay Latin America (July 2012 – March 2015)
• Front-end Engineer at Globo (October 2011 – July 2012)
• Software Engineer at Petrobras (February 2011 – October 2011)
• Web Developer at Caos! Design (September 2009 – February 2011)

Resend:

• An email company for developers that supplies indie hackers and software engineers with reliable email through an API.
• Rocha started Resend because he felt that existing platforms put too much friction on the user side.
• He aims to trust users by default, rather than making them go through a verification process.
• Resend focuses a lot on the sending part, but is also working on inbound emails.
• Resend has to dedicate a lot of energy to anti-abuse measures, with internal systems in place to fight spam and phishing.
• As of the time of the YouTube video, Resend has a team of seven serving 100,000 users, who send millions of emails every day.
• Rocha ensures that the engineering team has access to customer feedback.
• Rocha brings an indie hacker mentality to his work at Resend, including a sense of urgency and scarcity.