Danielle Leong
Chief Technology Officer at First Round Fast Track
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDanielle Leong is a hands-on technology leader and CTO with 11 years of engineering and management experience building secure, scalable platforms for companies from startups to enterprise. She has led identity, trust, and safety teams at GitHub—shipping mission-critical authentication and authorization services, unlocking $40M in ARR with Enterprise Managed Users, and maintaining 5 nines availability under heavy load. A pragmatic 0→1 builder and early hire turned executive, she scaled teams through acquisitions, blended cross-cultural orgs, and now leads FireHydrant through acquisition integration at Freshworks. Danielle is also an early-stage mentor and creator of the Consensual Software concept, pairing technical delivery with thoughtful policy on privacy and community safety. Based in New York, she brings a mix of product-minded engineering, operational rigor, and evident commitment to inclusive teams—plus the lesser-known credential of perfecting a Python skills exam and building tooling to help people with PTSD.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Coding DojoUniversity of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
elearning10
collaborative-editing10
dojo10
edtech10
agile10
atom-editor9
pair-programming9
package9
probot8
risk-assessment8
internet8
privacy-protection8
workspace8
jekyll8
github-app8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
firehydrant/backstage-1
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:119 PRs, 121 pushes, 122 branches in 1 month
portalsbackstageopen-platform
dmleong/dmleong
Jun 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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