Summary
Michelle Leech is a bilingual cybersecurity and developer-marketing professional based in Berlin with a track record of building ecosystems and product narratives across encryption, cryptography, IAM, payments, and IoT. She currently partners with engineering on Gno.land, driving grants, partnerships, and devrel while blending product marketing with hands-on ecosystem development. With roots at Gemalto leading enterprise security programs and analyst relations, she combines deep industry insight with tactical demand-generation and field marketing experience. Michelle has repeatedly moved between startup and corporate settings—helping launch community-centric projects like Full Node and advising blockchain and IoT consortia—showing a knack for translating technical complexity into partner-friendly programs. Her background in international communications and applied economics underpins a data-informed, multicultural approach to developer marketing and analytics. Colleagues describe her as the connector who turns technical roadmaps into funded partnerships and visible developer communities.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Business/Corporate Communications, Master’s Degree, Business/Corporate Communications at Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III)
High school diploma, honors, High school diploma, honors at Culver Academies
Bachelor’s Degree, Foreign language and international economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Foreign language and international economics at University of Kentucky
TCF, Français, TCF, Français at IEFEE
English, French, German