Leighton Wallace
Engineering Manager at Hayden AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeighton Wallace is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience delivering scalable backend and real-time systems from startups to large teams. He currently serves as Engineering Manager at Hayden AI, where he leads the event-processing cloud team to ensure timely, accurate decision-making in complex transport scenarios. Previously, he led engineering at BioRender's Enterprise team and at Lever, where he helped scale talent software and contributed to their real-time framework derbyjs while championing inclusive hiring practices. His early career spans roles at Apartment List, Oroeco, Pinger, and Stanford projects, shaping a foundation in full-stack development and scalable infrastructure. An active contributor to open source, he helped enhance the share/sharedb real-time database backend with new middleware, event-driven retrieval, and rigorous testing. Leighton holds a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford, and his career blends technical depth with people leadership, product sense, and a passion for building teams that ship delightful, reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Symbolic Systems, BS Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
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Github Skills (20)
operational-transformation10
javascript10
middleware10
node-js10
javascripts10
operational-transform10
transform10
async9
testing9
asynchronous9
keyboard9
realtime-database9
ruby-on-rails6
mouse6
microsoft-graph-api6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
share/sharedb
May 2018 - May 2018
Realtime database backend based on Operational Transformation (OT)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Leighton focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the realtime database. They introduced new middleware actions for document retrieval, improving performance and code clarity. The user refactored the existing code to trigger different events based on retrieval type and added tests. They also fixed variable names and updated the code to use the new events.
backend-databaserealtimetransformationreal-timeoperational
l8on/affiance
Dec 2015 - Apr 2021
A tool to manage and configure git hooks.
Contributions:3 reviews, 169 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 4 months
git-hookspre-commitgit-addonsdevtoolconfigure
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