About Katrin Freihofner

Katrin Freihofner is a product leader with a sharp eye for user experience and a deep passion for building products people actually want to use. Her journey through enterprise software powerhouses Dynatrace and Elastic gave her a rare blend of technical understanding and product intuition — the ability to see both what’s possible and what matters.

Professional Journey

With extensive experience across product management and UX in developer tooling, Katrin has held impactful roles including:

• Co-founder & CPO at Straion: Shaping the product vision for AI context management, ensuring complex rule matching feels simple and intuitive for engineering teams.
• Product Lead at Elastic: Led the development of AI-driven observability workflows, managed international teams, and helped shape how enterprise customers interact with complex monitoring systems.
• Product & UX at Dynatrace: Honed her craft in turning dense, data-heavy interfaces into clean experiences — learning firsthand what it takes to build tools that engineers adopt and love.

What Drives Katrin

Katrin believes the best developer tools are the ones you barely notice. They just work. At Straion, she’s obsessed with making rule management feel effortless — because if keeping standards up to date is a chore, nobody does it. Her experience managing international teams at Elastic taught her that great products aren’t just well-designed — they’re built with empathy for the people using them across different contexts, cultures, and workflows.

Beyond Work

Katrin brings the same precision and creativity she applies to product development to everything she does. Her diverse background in both technical and design-oriented roles gives her a unique perspective on building tools that bridge the gap between engineering complexity and human usability.