The women running the bunny burrow

We’ve all read enough “women in tech” articles to recognize the format. Most of them open with barriers that frame the conversation around representation and how far we still have to go.

I’m going to start with a statistic. At bunny.net, our fluffle sits at around 90 people, and 22 of us are women. That’s roughly a quarter of the company. But when you look at leadership roles, four out seven are held by women. And on a team of 15 Super Bunnies, just one of them is a woman.

When I first really noticed that, I found myself thinking less about the percentage and more about the women doing the work behind those numbers. Who are they when the cameras are off? How do they lead? What does their day actually look like? So I asked them.

For International Women’s Day, this felt like the right moment to share a few of their stories.

Yumika Rowles, COO

Spending a day shadowing Yumika would mean watching her switch gears constantly. In a single stretch of hours, she might review financials, run a final-round engineering interview, go through employee survey results, and send feedback on a client contract. It’s a daily balancing act few people see up close.

She’s aware of how much that kind of context switching takes out of you. It’s something she’s actively trying to structure better by grouping similar work and protecting space for deeper focus. At her level, clarity isn't just personal productivity. It shapes how everyone else moves.

When things get chaotic, she doesn't jump in immediately. She prefers teams to make decisions on their own and keeps the number of calls that land with her as low as possible. If more and more voices are involved and no one is moving closer to a decision, that’s when she realigns the group around the goal and pushes things forward.

Listening to her talk about the role, what stands out is the confidence behind it. She's not interested in controlling every decision. Her focus is making sure the right ones get made and that the people around her are equipped to make them.

Outside of operations, her curiosity leans toward product. She has mentioned more than once that she would happily spend a week closer to the bridge between customers and engineers, shaping the developer experience firsthand. The systems thinking never really switches off, though. She tracks everything in spreadsheets, from holiday planning to weekly meal prep. She jokes that at this point, Google Sheets is less a tool and more a lifestyle choice.

Ali Baker, VP of Growth and Revenue

Ali’s story is an interesting one. She grew up in Toronto but has been building her career across Europe for more than a decade. A transfer to London pulled her into the startup ecosystem, where she kept seeing the same pattern. Strong products were being built, but many teams struggled to turn that momentum into a repeatable growth engine.

That gap led her to start RevStudio, a consulting firm focused on helping early-stage companies build the foundations of revenue before trying to scale it. Over the years she worked with companies like Discord and Roblox, developing a sharp instinct for what actually moves growth forward.

Some of that instinct came from her early days in sales, when cold calling was the main engine. It's not glamorous work, but it teaches you fast. You learn to read people, recognize patterns, and keep going after hearing “no” more times than you would like. That discipline still shapes how she thinks about growth today. Execution first. Optimization later.

Ali is most energized by messy beginnings. Blank pages. Teams with huge potential that just need direction. At bunny.net, she focuses on building a growth engine that moves quickly but does not sacrifice trust in the product.

Before officially stepping into her role as VP of Growth and Revenue at bunny.net — a move we covered in more detail in this interview — she worked closely with the team as a consultant. Once she saw how customers responded to the platform and where the opportunity was, the decision to stay was an easy one.

Ali built her career by stepping into spaces that needed direction and figuring them out as she went. The growth engine she’s building at bunny.net follows the same philosophy. Start moving, learn quickly, and keep building. Her resilience and willingness to start from the ground up, again and again, is how she’s built her career.

Tia Mavrič Kjuder, People Experience & Strategy Lead

Talking with Tia, you quickly notice what she pays attention to. Not policies or org charts, but the atmosphere in the room. The tone people bring into meetings. Whether ideas move freely or get held back.

She describes company culture as something fragile. It's collective and contagious, shaped by how people show up each day. It doesn't show up clearly in dashboards or survey scores. You see it in the energy of conversations and in how comfortable people feel speaking up.

That sensitivity to people also shapes how she hires. Experience and skills are important, but a fixed mindset is the quickest way to lose her in an interview. She looks for curiosity and self-awareness. People who are willing to learn and examine their own blind spots tend to grow the most over time.

Her background as a psychologist trained her to look at the bigger picture, and leading People Experience sharpened that instinct. Challenges inside companies rarely exist in isolation. When something shifts in one place, it often echoes somewhere else, which is why she has learned to zoom out first and look for patterns rather than quick fixes.

It's complex work, and she finds that complexity fascinating. Culture evolves constantly as a company grows. Protecting the environment where people feel confident contributing their ideas takes attention and care.

You see the results in how people collaborate and speak up. When people feel safe bringing their thinking forward, better conversations happen and stronger decisions follow. What Tia brings to bunny.net is hard to overstate. It sits at the heart of how the company works and how people move together day to day.

Swati Aggarwal, Lead of Product and Design

Behind the product and design direction at bunny.net is Swati, a leader who brings both technical depth and strategic thinking to every decision about what gets built next.

When someone proposes building something new, Swati’s first instinct is to step back and understand what is actually driving the request. A feature, she explains, is rarely the real problem. It's someone’s interpretation of a problem. The work begins by unpacking that thinking and figuring out what truly needs solving.

In her role leading Product and Design, she describes her responsibility as owning the “why” and the “what.” But the deeper responsibility is creating the conditions where good decisions can happen without her being present. Strategy, priorities, and guardrails all serve that goal. When those pieces are clear, teams move faster and with far more confidence.

That perspective comes from a background that sits between two worlds. A computer science degree trained her to think in systems and constraints. Later, an MBA from Oxford added the strategic lens of markets, positioning, and long-term bets. Product leadership lives in the tension between those two perspectives.

Engineers know right away whether you understand the technical trade-offs and constraints behind what they’re building. The business needs to trust that you are optimizing for the right outcomes. Bridging those perspectives takes practice, and it is a skill she now uses every day at bunny.net, often within the same conversation.

Developers are not impressed by noise or unnecessary complexity. They value clarity, reliability, and products that solve real problems. That expectation sets the bar high, and it is one Swati holds herself to as well.

For Swati, the most interesting part of building happens early. When the problem is still unfolding and the direction is not obvious yet. If she ever stepped away from product, she would likely stay close to that phase by advising early-stage startups or teaching people how to break down complex problems.

Monika Żukiel, CDN Support Engineer II

When it comes to support at bunny.net, our super bunnies are on the front line of every problem. Systems break, accounts lock up, customers panic, and someone has to step in quickly to make sense of the chaos. Monika is one of the people doing exactly that.

She’s also the only woman on the support team.

Speed is the first thing people notice about her work. Colleagues sometimes joke that she’s a sniper because of how quickly she moves through cases. Blink and the ticket might already be resolved. She thrives in the kind of environment where things move fast and priorities shift constantly.

Chaos is not something Monika avoids. To her, it’s something to organize. When things pile up, she shuts off her “casual brain” and focuses on getting through as much as possible in the shortest amount of time. The storm passes, the work gets done, and the next challenge arrives.

Her path into support wasn’t traditional. Before her first technical role, she worked as a cook. Everything she knows about support work today, she taught herself. That experience shaped the mindset she now brings to the team. If she could learn it from scratch, she believes anyone willing to put in the effort can too. Helping others grow into the role has become one of the parts of the job she enjoys most.

Monika cares deeply about the people on the other side of the ticket. At the end of the day, issues get resolved and systems come back online, but what customers remember most is how they were treated while everything was going wrong.

And in this industry, that level of support is exactly the kind of leadership women like Monika are bringing to the forefront.

A note to the women shaping bunny.net

It’s a privilege to work alongside some of the smartest, hardest-working, and most determined women I’ve had the chance to know. The women in this burrow show up every day with focus, resilience, and resolute confidence that keeps this company hopping ahead.

To every Lady Bunny in the burrow, thank you. You set the standard, not just for us, but for the next generation of women looking toward this industry and wondering if they belong here. Your work answers that question better than any statistic ever could.

You are builders, problem-solvers, and leaders in your own right. And yes, forces to be reckoned with who should be celebrated every day.

If these sound like your kind of people, hop over to our careers page and take a look at our open roles. We’d love to hear from you.