Don Neufeld
Chief Executive Officer at Nuon
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDon Neufeld is a seasoned engineering leader and CEO with 12 years of senior management experience building and scaling high-performance teams across the San Francisco Bay Area. He founded and leads VPECoach and currently serves as interim Head of Engineering at Mudflap while advising multiple startups, blending hands-on technical judgment with executive strategy. His background spans CTO and VP Engineering roles at companies like Medium, ClassPass, and Chartboost, giving him deep experience in product-led growth, platform reliability, and developer organization design. Don is known for turning engineering management theory into practice—mentoring leaders, structuring hiring and promotion frameworks, and coaching teams through rapid change. With a B.Sc. in Math/CS and roots in systems and game development at Sony Online and Wolfram, he brings both analytical rigor and operational pragmatism.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Math/CS, B.Sc Math/CS at Brandon University
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Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dnf/women-in-software-eng
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
dnf/gemgeo
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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