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Danielle Leong

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Director of Engineering at Freshworks
📍 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Danielle Leong is a technical leader with a history at Freshworks, FireHydrant (as CTO), GitHub, and Twilio. She excels at building fast, reliable delivery pipelines and people-centric engineering teams. Her colleagues consistently describe her as passionate, empathetic, and incredibly smart, with a knack for creating order out of chaos and a background from UC Irvine.

Outside of her engineering leadership roles, Danielle is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, having co-founded the first employee resource group at Twilio. She is also a professional portrait and fashion photographer and has mentioned interests in rock climbing and riding motorcycles. She actively mentors early-stage operators in the tech community.

Unique fact: Danielle created Feerless, an application that provides trigger warnings for Netflix users who have PTSD.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Engineering Leadership
As a CTO and Director, she focuses on creating healthy, inclusive, and productive engineering teams and mentors operators on best practices.
Diversity & Inclusion
Co-founded Twilio's first Diversity & Inclusion ERG, for which she won an award, and actively mentors underrepresented people in tech.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Director of Engineering
Freshworks
1-2024 - 1-2026
Chief Technology Officer
FireHydrant
6-2023
Mentor
Tech By Choice
3-2023
Early stage operator mentor
First Round Fast Track
9-2018
Owner
Danielle Leong Photography
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Education
2005 - 2009
B.A.
UC Irvine
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