Chris Leyva ✌️
Leading design at startups
Seasoned product designer with 10+ years in the cyber startup space helping founders and teams grow and uplevel their design from all angles, with successful exits along the way.
Recent startup experience
Sr Staff Product Designer, @sandboxaq
2025 - Now
Former Alphabet company redefining drug discovery for tough diseases through AI and quantum physics-based methods.
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Staff Product Designer, @stairwell
2021 - 2025
Securing the modern enterprise from cybersecurity threats. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Gradient Ventures, and others.
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Founding Designer, @perchsecurity
2016 - 2021
Focus cybersecurity data streams to enable enterprise-wide visibility, real-time threat detection, and simplified compliance reporting (SIEM).
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Product Designer, @soltrasolutions
2016
A joint venture between FS-ISAC & DTCC, the platform distills large amounts of data into actionable intelligence that is easy to understand and use (TIP).
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Recent side projects
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Founding Partner
2024 - 2025
Pre-seed cyber security startup building a best in class application security tool for high performing engineering teams.
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Product Design
2025
Detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and malicious code in devices and software supply chains.
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Web Design
2025
Modern deployment platform that builds, deploys, routes, and scales your apps globally with 80% lower costs than Vercel & Netlify.
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Product Design
2024 - 2025
The learning and upskill platform for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with a community platform for knowledge sharing.
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Product Advisor
2022 - 2023
Reduce meetings, break down silos, and decrease information overload with a simple, cross-functional way of operating.
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Founding Product Design
2020 - 2022
A mobile app platform for users to win (and lose) real money by playing popular video games against friends and strangers.
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Product Design
2021
The leading managed security platform for the cyber resilient enterprise.
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Product Design
2019 - 2020
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