Dakota Leroy
Product Designer at Communia
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDakota Leroy is a Product Designer with nine years of experience crafting trust, safety, and privacy solutions for high‑scale consumer platforms. They've led design efforts across Twitter, ChromeOS, GameChanger, and LinkedIn, focusing on content moderation, anti‑abuse tooling, and user authentication to keep interactions healthy and secure. Dakota combines a computer science background from Tufts with hands‑on product strategy to navigate ambiguity and translate complex policy and technical constraints into clear, usable experiences. They also advise a women’s safety social app, bringing accessibility and engagement thinking to early product decisions. Notably, Dakota has repeatedly built systems that protect vulnerable users— from child safety features in youth sports streaming to large‑scale transparency mechanisms for inauthentic behavior—demonstrating a consistent focus on safety at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Tufts UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Miss Porter's School
English, French
Github Skills (6)
mediawiki-extension2
crowd2
urban-planning2
agent-based-modeling2
transparency2
cornerstone1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DakotaLeRoy/TEMSvsDrunkCollegeStudent
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
DakotaLeRoy/dakotaleroy.github.io
Feb 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:245 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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