Summary
Ned O'Leary is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco who builds developer-first infrastructure for identity and access in B2B software. As cofounder of Tesseral he has led the open source customer identity platform to 2,500+ GitHub stars and raised $3.3M from investors including Y Combinator and its founders, shipping enterprise-grade features like SAML, SCIM, RBAC, MFA and audit logging with minimal integration work. Prior to founding Tesseral he combined strategy and operational roles at startups and firms like Gem, BCG, and OpenView, bringing a mix of GTM, product, and corporate finance expertise to technical product teams. He studied mathematics and economics at Georgetown and LSE, translating quantitative rigor into pragmatic product and growth decisions. With five years of professional experience, Ned sits at the intersection of developer tooling, security, and go-to-market execution. An underappreciated strength is his ability to move fluidly between investor conversations and low-level product tradeoffs, speeding both fundraising and engineering progress.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Economics (with honors), Mathematics and Economics (with honors) at Georgetown University
Y Combinator
London School of Economics and Political Science