Maayan is the Founder of Proto (@proto_labs_inc), a startup building tools around prototyping and AI agents, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a creative technologist who works across design, engineering, and product.

Maayan studied Design and HCI with a minor in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She worked as a designer at frog, an engineer at Apple, and a product manager at Google.

Maayan co-created Stamper, a p5.js programming environment shaped like a design tool, which was accepted into CHI 2020's Late-Breaking Works category. She speaks English and Hebrew, and describes herself as a prototyping enthusiast.

Maayan was a founding engineer at Avenue, an operations analytics startup later acquired by Clay, and a KP Product Fellow at Kleiner Perkins. She also founded Eve and most recently served as Engineering Lead at Browserbase.

At Avenue, Maayan helped modernize real time alerts, including an advanced Slack integration that dispatched tens of thousands of alerts daily. At Proto she now ships new product features in public, including Proto mini games and a Snapshots feature.