Patrick Donahue is a seasoned product executive with 11 years of experience leading product and technology teams at high-growth cloud and security companies. He has scaled product organizations and shipped enterprise-grade networking, application security, and cloud-native offerings at Cloudflare before moving into senior leadership roles at Aurora Solar and Chainguard. Patrick blends deep technical fluency—spanning TLS, certificate ecosystems, and edge security—with strategic product vision for developer- and enterprise-focused platforms. He has a track record of partnering with standards bodies and major vendors to drive broad industry adoption of security features. Equally comfortable as a founder and an operator, he brings hands-on engineering instincts from early CTO and co-founder roles to complex, regulated product spaces. Based in San Francisco, he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery experience to make technically ambitious products broadly accessible.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Economics Computer Science, A.B. Economics Computer Science at Bowdoin College
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