Summary
Eric Leong is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and startup CTO with 11 years in software and seven years of focused professional development across Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and React. As Co-founder & CTO of Ownwell he’s applying product and technical leadership to help Canadian mortgage professionals grow repeat and referral business, after scaling teams and delivery as Director of Engineering at Paystone. He thrives on front-end challenges—building delightful, high-impact UIs—while retaining deep backend fluency to ship end-to-end features. A former mentor and instructor at Lighthouse Labs, he pairs hands-on coding with coaching and hiring experience, helping teams level up quickly. Based in Vancouver, he blends startup grit with operational experience across SMBs and fast-growing product companies.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Lighthouse Labs