Elliot DeNolf

Founder & CTO at Payload (Acq. by Figma)

Founder

Payload· Summer 2022🇺🇸 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @elliothimself

2025Software Engineer· Figma

Founder · since 2022

Company

Figma

Role

Software Engineer

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Payload

Developer-First Headless CMS and Application Framework

Summer 2022

Experience

Career

Figma
Software Engineer · Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Payload
Founder
Founder & CTO · Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States · 2022 – Present
2022
Extend
Senior Software Engineer · 2021 – 2022
2021
Nordstrom
Senior Software Engineer · 2020 – 2021
2020
Nordstrom
Software Engineer · Greater Denver Area / Remote · 2015 – 2020
2015
FinFolio
Software Developer · Denver Metropolitan Area · 2014 – 2015
2014
SalesPad LLC
QA Automation Engineer · Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area · 2012 – 2014
2012
SalesPad LLC
Implementation / Support Technician · Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area · 2011 – 2012
2011
Meijer
Quality Assurance Tester · Walker, MI · 2010 – 2011
2010

Bio

Elliot DeNolf is founder and CTO of Payload CMS. He has worked extensively in design, development, and delivery of large, distributed, back-end services. His specializations include resilient, high-availability web services, containerization technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.