Chris Leyva ✌️
Leading design at startups
Seasoned product designer with over a decade of experience helping startups uplevel their design from all angles. From successful cybersecurity exits to vibe designing the latest biotech tools.
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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