Jürgen Leschner

Full-stack Web software engineer and experienced EM/PM leader.

❤️ Love to shape new products, work closely with customers, read and write and delete code, collaborate on issues and PRs, improve usability, build automation, measure performance, refine docs, handle on-call.

🚢 Shipped software at GitHub, VMware, and Microsoft and a variety of startups. Always learning.

🏡 Home in Lexington MA, 2nd base in Dublin Ireland. OG from Johannesburg.

Haydn Labs: Founder, Boston, 2013 - present

Opral: Engineering, Dublin & Boston, Jan - June 2024

Zero ASIC: Software Architect, Dublin & Boston, 2023

Gitpod: Product manager, Cambridge UK, 2021 - 2022

VMware: Product leader, Cambridge USA & Cambridge UK, 2017 - 2021

GitHub: Principal Engineer, EM, Cambridge USA, 2016 - 2017

EMC / VMWare: Engineering manager, Boston, 2008 - 2013

Pi Corp:. Co-founder, Boston, Dubai, Bangalore, Montreal, 2003 - 2008

Collego: Founder, Boston 1999 - 2001

Siebel Interactive: 1st hire, Engineering manager, Boston MA 1997 - 1999

École Européenne des Affaires: Paris, France

Microsoft: Engineer, Program Manager, Redmond WA

Digital Techniques: Engineer, Burlington MA

MIT: Cambridge, MA

Damelin College: Academic high school, Johannesburg S.Africa

Inventor / co-inventor on 9 US patents

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