Austin Leonard

Founder at Tandem Ops | ex-Cisco

Tandem Ops

Salt Lake City, UT · MT (UTC-7)

4+ years experience

NYU

English

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Founder of Tandem Ops, working on developer tooling. Raised $15 million across 3 rounds. Took Tandem Ops from zero to $2 million ARR. I read too many books about cities.

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open sourceRustproductcommunity

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closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - micro-pensions for solar installers, $91k MRR

Stage: Pre-seed
Raising: $91k
Instrument: Convertible note
Committed so far: $463k from an existing fund
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: $91k MRR after 13 months
Use of funds: Engineering hires and the first sales team

$91k MRR after 13 months. Looking for investors who know AI infrastructure and can help with hiring.

Salt Lake City, UTrustproductcommunity

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Experience

Founder
Jul 2025 - Present
Tandem Ops · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
- Took Tandem Ops from zero to $8 million ARR.
- Grew the team to 117 people across 3 countries.
Senior Account Executive
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Cisco · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
- Opened 11 new logos over $2 million ACV in the region.
- Built the partnerships team from 4 to 22 reps.

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Conference talk: lessons from company

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tooling.

Developer tooling benchmark

2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing product and community on real workloads.

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Education

NYU
BA, Computer Science
2018 - 2022

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