Our Team

Operators and engineers, together

We combine restaurant floor experience with hospitality-tech infrastructure knowledge.

Founded by operators, built by engineers who worked in the kitchen

Prepcadence was founded by a former restaurant operations manager alongside engineers who previously built production scheduling tools at Toast and Olo.

Isabella Russo

Isabella Russo

CEO & Co-Founder

Former operations manager for a 6-location New York fast-casual chain. Isabella identified the prep list problem firsthand and built the Google Sheets prototype that became Prepcadence. She leads product strategy and operator partnerships.

Darnell Hughes

Darnell Hughes

CTO & Co-Founder

Previously led backend infrastructure at Toast, where he built the team that scaled POS API integrations to thousands of restaurant locations. Darnell owns platform architecture and the POS integration layer at Prepcadence.

Wei-Lin Chiang

Wei-Lin Chiang

Head of Product

Shipped kitchen-facing tools at Olo before joining Prepcadence as one of the first employees. Wei-Lin leads product design and the kitchen lead interface, with particular focus on making the checklist experience fast and low-friction in real kitchen conditions.

Tomas Ferreiro

Tomas Ferreiro

Head of Engineering

Built production scheduling and compliance systems for food manufacturing before moving into restaurant tech. Tomas leads the forecast modeling engine and the waste tracking pipeline, the two systems that determine how accurate Prepcadence gets over time.

Work with people who know your kitchen

We are a small team that takes on new operators directly. Every implementation starts with a conversation about your specific locations and current prep workflow.