Dan Kwon
Senior Product Designer at VMware
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Kwon is a Senior Product Designer with 14 years of experience crafting web and mobile security products used by Fortune 500 companies and millions of users worldwide. He currently leads product design for VMware NSX’s security suite, including Distributed IDS/IPS and Advanced Threat Detection, blending deep UX craft with domain expertise in enterprise security. Previously he led UX at Synack, a Google Ventures–backed security startup, and was a founding creative lead at privacy-focused Disconnect, whose work earned mainstream recognition and a Popular Science innovation award. Dan pairs entrepreneurial experience—cofounding multiple startups and advising early-stage companies that have raised over $50M—with hands-on product design for complex, high-stakes systems. Based in Cupertino, he brings a cross-disciplinary background in industrial technology and business, which informs practical, user-centered solutions for technical security products. An uncommon strength is his track record of translating privacy and threat-detection research into approachable interfaces that scale across global enterprise deployments.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Technology, Bachelor of Science, Industrial Technology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (11)
browser-extension10
chrome9
safari9
firefox9
webpages8
disconnect7
go6
chrome-extension5
twitter4
firefox-addon4
browser3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
disconnectme/fbdc
Mar 2012 - Nov 2012
Facebook Disconnect is a browser extension that stops Facebook from tracking the webpages you go to.
Contributions:10 commits in 8 months
browser-extensiongo
disconnectme/chrollusion
Mar 2012 - May 2012
Collusion for Chrome (and Safari!) is a browser extension that lets you visualize and, optionally, block the otherwise invisible websites tracking you (based on Mozilla’s Firefox add-on Collusion <https://github.com/toolness/collusion>).
Contributions:21 commits in 1 month
browser-extensionchromefirefoxsafari
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