Eamon Leonard

Co-Founder

2024 - Current

Co Organizer

2023

This Next Thing is an annual gathering of 200 founders, investors, creatives, and inventors in the Swiss alps.

Partner

2022

Broadstone is a pre-seed syndicate investing in founders in Ireland and across Europe. We're typically first money in, and get hands on with the fundraising process. As a syndicate we invest €150k - €400k, in pre-seed rounds. Our syndicate members are a mix of experienced founder / operators and HNWs from tech and non-tech backgrounds.

Co-Founder

2019 - 2021

Boundless makes it easy to employ people in other countries, by handling payroll, taxes and employment law compliance.

Founder

2015 - 2018

Cohort was created to help people develop relationships in their professional network. Built on a bespoke social graph mined from public and private data, Cohort predicted the strength of relationships and how that intersected with knowledge, skills and abilities within a given group of people.

VP Engineering / Developer Relations

2011 - 2014

A pioneer in Platform as a Service, backed by Benchmark, NEA and Amazon, Engine Yard made it easy for developers of apps to deploy and scale in the cloud. I joined Engine Yard as VP Eng when they acquired Orchestra. I transitioned to VP Developer Relations and along with a solid team of community focussed engineers,helped to define the foundation of modern DevRel.

Co-Founder

2011 - 2011

A cloud platform for deploying, scaling and managing web apps. Bootstrapped and sold to Engine Yard in a multimillion euro deal, within 6 months of launch.

Co-Founder

2008 - 2011

echolibre was a small devshop building apps for startups and medium sized businesses. Over the course or 3 years we helped design, develop, ship and support backend software projects for 50 clients around the world. We developed Orchestra as a side project to initially automate the laborious process of setting up and maintaining cloud based environment for app deployments. It was subsequently spun out as a stand alone project and acquired after 6 months by Engine Yard.

Various technical & developer roles

1998 - 2008

Before starting a dev shop in 2008, I held various technical / developer roles in a variety of SMBs: - Lead developer at web agency for a few years - Early developer at a leading travel booking web company - Technical support for a leading ISP - Database administration for a charity / non-profit - General IT contractor at various SMBs