Patrick Donahue

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product strategy at multiple tech companies.
  • Expert in cloud-based software solutions.
  • Strong background in financial services technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive product leadership experience.

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Skills

Other Skills

Product ManagementStart-upsProduct DevelopmentBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentJavaScriptAsset ManagementCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentInvestmentsEnterprise SoftwareLeadershipAgile MethodologiesStrategy

Experience

24 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Chainguard

SVP, Product

Sep 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Aurora solar

2 roles

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Promoted

Jan 2025Sep 2025 · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Chief Product Officer

Apr 2024Jan 2025 · 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Aurora’s cloud-based software transforms solar design, sales, and delivery. With just an address and electric bill, Aurora empowers you to generate a full, accurate, and customizable design for every customer—and close the deal on the spot. We help power tens of thousands of solar projects every week towards our goal of making solar accessible for everyone.
  • Aurora is the solar industry’s leading software platform for PV sales and design, with over 20M+ projects designed in our software.

Cloudflare

3 roles

VP, Product

Promoted

Feb 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Responsible for Cloudflare's Networking, Application Security, and Threat Intelligence product offerings.

Director of Product

Promoted

Jun 2018Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Senior Product Manager

May 2015Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • About Cloudflare:
  • Cloudflare protects and accelerates millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet. We dramatically improve website performance through our global CDN of more than 115 points-of-presence (PoPs), protect sites from threats with our web application firewall (WAF), best-in-breed DDoS protection, and cutting edge SSL/TLS implementations.
  • About my role:
  • Product manage the Security Engineering and Edge Applications teams, focusing on HTTPS, L3 (IP) through L7 (WAF) firewall services, and empowering customers to configure Cloudflare via code.
  • Drive worldwide adoption of HTTPS by designing and building dead simple products for enterprises and individuals alike including Universal and Keyless SSL, Dedicated Certificates, SSL for SaaS, Geo Key Manager, and Origin CA; more info available at https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl.
  • Collaborate closely with the top Certificate Authorities (Comodo, DigiCert, GlobalSign, Let's Encrypt) and browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer/Edge) to ensure that the web remains accessible, fast, and secure for all users — regardless of their resources.
  • Some blog posts I've written for Cloudflare about my teams' work:
  • "A Tour Through Merkle Town, Cloudflare's CT Dashboard": https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-tour-through-merkle-town-cloudflares-ct-ecosystem-dashboard/
  • "Introducing SSL for SaaS": https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-ssl-for-saas/
  • "Introducing Dedicated Certificates" : https://blog.cloudflare.com/dedicated-ssl-certificates/
  • "Introducing Cloudflare Origin CA": https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-ca-encryption-origin/
  • "TLS Certificate Optimization: The Technical Details behind "No Browser Left Behind"" - https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-certificate-optimization-technical-details/
  • "Change the (S)Channel! Deconstructing the Microsoft TLS Session Resumption bug" - https://blog.cloudflare.com/microsoft-tls-downgrade-schannel-bug/

Burnturn (bitcoin) poker

CTO

Jun 2013May 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Myvest

Vice President, Product Management

Mar 2011Nov 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco, CA

  • About MyVest:
  • MyVest was formed in 2001 by a team of top technology, investment management, and securities operations professionals who are deeply familiar with the limitations of front, middle, and back office processes and technologies. Applying their skills, talent, and experience, the team developed the Strategic Portfolio System, plus a full turnkey service.
  • Collectively, our team has developed front office and tax software used by millions of financial professionals and individuals, created middle and back office solutions used by top financial institutions worldwide to process and custody trillions of dollars of assets daily, and managed hundreds of billions of dollars of assets owned by both institutional and private investors.

Demandstreet, inc.

Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder

Oct 2010May 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, CA

  • DemandStreet’s automated software platform matches the messaging crafted by corporate marketing departments with the insatiable content needs of local small businesses who want to engage with (and subtly sell to) their customers via social media.

Structural investment management llc

2 roles

Co-Founder and Principal, Product Management & Technology Infrastructure

Jun 2007Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • About Structural:
  • Our founding investors and clients are leaders in financial markets and technology, who believe that individuals and institutions are poorly served by an industry that thrives on opacity, high fees, and misaligned incentives. We define success as delivering investment solutions and financial advice that, net of our fee, yield outcomes superior to what financially sophisticated investors, working from the same first principles, might achieve on their own. Core to our ability to achieve this is our use of technology to enable flawless execution of routine processes.
  • Head development and systematization of investment product; current focus is on cash management and global equities offerings.

Co-Founder and Director of Financial Engineering

Jan 2006May 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Co-founded firm and nurtured from initial research and development stages through proof of concept to servicing of pilot clients. Refined models and processes based on client/market feedback and supported expansion of client base to high net worth (HNW) space.
  • Recruited and built all technical teams.

Vitale, caturano & co.

Consultant, Infrastructure Solutions

Apr 2005Jan 2006 · 9 mos

Acmi corporation

Network/Systems Administrator

Jun 2001Apr 2005 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Education

Bowdoin College

A.B.

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