Allan Leinwand
Chief Technology Officer, Webflow
Allan Leinwand is chief technology officer at Webflow and oversees the company’s worldwide engineering team as Webflow enters its next phase of growth and product innovation.
Leinwand comes to Webflow from Shopify, where he most recently served as CTO, leading engineering and data for the global commerce company. Prior to that, Leinwand was SVP of Engineering at Slack where he helped grow engineering through their IPO. Leinwand has also served as the CTO of the digital workflow company ServiceNow for over six years and was CTO of Infrastructure at Zynga where he helped lead the teams responsible for the global delivery of the popular game platform. In addition to his operating roles, Leinwand has leveraged his technical expertise as a venture investor. He founded Vyatta (acquired by Brocade), the open-source networking company, and co-authored “Cisco Router Configuration” and “Network Management: A Practical Perspective” and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. Leinwand previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he taught on the subjects of computer networks, network management and network design. He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
