Cindy Alvarez

Cindy Alvarez believes that there's always the time and need to learn from your customers - and your teammates!. She's the Director of Customer Research at GitHub, where her team learns from developers and helps develop internal collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.

She's previously run research and product teams at Microsoft, Yammer, and previous enterprise startups. She’s the author of Lean Customer Development: Build Products Your Customers Will Buy and contemplating her next book.