---
title: "Katelyn Lesse"
category: "people"
role: "Head of Engineering, Claude Platform"
company: "Anthropic"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelynlesse/"
twitter: "https://x.com/katelyn_lesse"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Katelyn Lesse

## Profile
Head of Engineering, Claude Platform at [[anthropic|Anthropic]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelynlesse/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/katelyn_lesse)

## Biography
Katelyn Lesse is the Head of Platform Engineering at [[anthropic|Anthropic]]. She leads engineering for the Claude Platform, including APIs and developer tooling, as well as [[anthropic|Anthropic]]’s product infrastructure. She has experience building and scaling engineering organizations across fintech and developer platforms, with previous leadership roles at Stripe and Betterment.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-katelyn-lesse-tokens-should-have-jobs]] — Tokens Should Have Jobs (2026-07-01, 10:45am-11:05am)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-katelyn-lesse-tokens-should-have-jobs|Tokens Should Have Jobs]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4`: claude, context, give, model, developer, platform, maximizes, intelligence.
- Evidence links for `youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4`: [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-slides]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-dense-slides]], [[youtube-aqW68Is_Kj4-reconstructed-slides]]