Summary
Alexandria Leal is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience making people, organizations, and systems interoperate effectively, currently building at Fastly. Comfortable in C and fluent in Rust, she also brings intermediate experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Terraform, and shell scripting to solve production and customer-facing problems. Her background spans customer support engineering to release engineering, where she frequently bridges cross-functional gaps and mentors newer engineers while owning complex debugging and architecture conversations. Known for rapid ramp-up, high CSAT scores, and a knack for turning support insights into automation and documentation, she excels at turning ad hoc problems into repeatable solutions. Outside engineering she’s half academic/zoologist at heart — a detail reflected in her affectionate GitHub bio that ties technical rigor to curiosity about animals. Colleagues describe her as initiative-driven and relentless at pursuing root causes, grabbing problems “by the tail” until they’re resolved.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General. Business Information Systems Marketing., Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General. Business Information Systems Marketing. at University of Washington, The Michael G. Foster School of Business
Japanese, English