LaunchDarkly
Ship faster. Reduce risk. Build better software.
Founded in 2014 by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal in Oakland, California, LaunchDarkly was built on the insight that separating code deployment from feature release was one of the most powerful techniques in modern software development. Feature flags allow engineers to merge and deploy code at any time without releasing it to users, enabling teams to ship faster with less risk. LaunchDarkly raised $200 million in 2021 at a $3 billion valuation and serves over 4,000 enterprise customers including IBM, Atlassian, and Lucid. The platform processes over 20 trillion feature flag evaluations annually and has expanded from feature flags into a full experimentation platform covering A/B testing, progressive delivery, and release automation for the world's largest software teams.
Active Founders
Edith Harbaugh
Founder / CEO
Edith Harbaugh is the co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly. She previously worked in product and engineering roles at several enterprise software companies and experienced firsthand the risks of big-bang software releases. Edith co-founded LaunchDarkly to give engineering teams the confidence to ship continuously without fear of breaking production. She is a prominent advocate for women in tech leadership and has been recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 and Fortune's Most Powerful Women lists.
John Kodumal
Co-Founder / CTO
John Kodumal is the co-founder and CTO of LaunchDarkly. A software engineer with a deep background in distributed systems, he designed and built LaunchDarkly's core feature flag evaluation engine — a globally distributed system capable of evaluating trillions of flags per year with sub-millisecond latency. John's technical architecture choices from the company's earliest days have allowed LaunchDarkly to scale reliably to serve the world's largest software organizations.
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