One of Docker's star engineers got so many death and rape threats, the company hired private detectives to protect her

Last month, word broke that a star engineer for the super hot startup Docker, Jessie Frazelle, was leaving to join another hot startup, Mesosphere.

Such career leaps are often routine. But in this case Frazelle was known as "THE face of Docker to the engineering community," as one person on Twitter put it.

She was active on the speaker circuit and had contributed so much code to the Docker project that she was considered one of Docker's main builders. (Docker helped invent a programming industry called "containers" which helps apps move from the programmer's computer to the cloud without breaking.)

A tweet from another women engineer claimed that Frazelle was "harassed out" of Docker.

We asked Docker if hiring private investigators and going to the police worked to deter any of the culprits that were threatening its employee. The company declined comment.

No doubt Frazelle's career will continue to soar at Mesophere, a company building a management system for containers with all the early earmarks of success.

Frazelle declined comment when we reached out to her. But she did tweet:

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