# David Leung

> Builder of awesome things that make a difference.
Founding Engineer @ Bigspin AI

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidleung

Experienced engineering leader with a demonstrated history developing both consumer and enterprise products.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Bigspin AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Engineering Leader @ BetterUp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead partner experience & data operations at BetterUp.  Using data to power BetterUp's mission of helping people live with more clarity, purpose and passion.

### Director of Engineering & Founding Engineer @ Motive Software
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Bootstrapped NLP text analytics product focused on serving employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) needs.  Successful exit through acquisition by BetterUp within 2 years.

### Director of Engineering @ Ultimate Software
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Joined Ultimate Software through Ultimate’s acquisition of Kanjoya in 2016.  Managed engineering team of 35-40 engineers working across Perception application and platform teams.   Perception responsibilities included product development, scaling, infrastructure, quality assurance and site reliability.  Platform team responsibilities included data center / cloud migrations, building out common platform and scoring pipelines.  Also tasked with numerous initiatives to improve quality, streamline cross team collaboration and evangelize SRE practices across Ultimate Software.

### Director of Engineering, Perception @ Kanjoya, Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Perception is an employee engagement survey analytics product used by companies to better understand their employees.  Managed 10-15 engineers across infrastructure, platform, release, and product engineering teams working on the Perception product.  Responsibilities include building new product features, scaling the product, maturing software development lifecycle, improving system robustness and growing the team.

### Director of Engineering, Experience Project @ Kanjoya, Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
Managed a team of about 15 engineers (web, iOS, Android) working on the Experience Project, an anonymous social networking platform with 20M+ monthly active users.

### Senior Software Engineer @ SeaChange International
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Mateo, CA
Senior software engineer developing DVR software used by both the cable and satellite tv industries.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Embedded software engineer working on network based DVR products as part of Cisco’s DVR business after the acquisition of Scientific Atlanta.

### Software Engineer @ EchoStar Corporation
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010
Embedded software engineer building various DVR products primarily used by Dish Network customers to record and playback live TV.  Contributed to code in application, middleware, driver, kernel and boot layers.  Technologies include C, MPEG, Linux, ARM

### Consultant / Engineer @ HEADMINDER INC.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2006 | New York, New York, United States
Developed new technologies that enabled web-based administration of neurocognitive test batteries.

### Web Developer @ Xcape
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 | New York, NY
Designed web based online educational courses.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidmhleung

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Last updated: 2026-04-05