Andrew Potapov
Director, Software Engineering at Leap Tools
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Potapov is a product-focused software engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on and executive experience scaling teams and shipping revenue-driving platforms across consumer, fintech, logistics, and quantum software domains. He has led organizations through IPO and high-growth international expansion—doubling GMV at Ritual and scaling Wish’s local store network from 10k to 50k—while building career frameworks, hiring pipelines and performance processes that endure. At theScore he drove architecture and operational improvements for mobile-first sportsbook and iCasino products that contributed to the company’s principal revenue stream, and he has practical experience in low-latency, event-driven systems. As a fractional CTO and director-level leader he blends strategic roadmap planning with tactical delivery, favoring servant leadership and ownership across Purpose, People, Product, Platform and Process. Based in Toronto, he pairs broad language and platform fluency (Elixir, Java, Python, React, Rust, cloud) with a knack for aligning engineering structure to business outcomes—often surfacing organizational fixes before they become bottlenecks.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Bachelor of Science Computer Science - Software Engineering (minor in Economics), Honors Bachelor of Science Computer Science - Software Engineering (minor in Economics) at University of Toronto
English, Russian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
python10
deep-learning10
qiskit10
optimization10
quantum-algorithms10
quantum-computing10
qml10
differentiable-programming10
cirq10
automatic-differentiation10
tensorflow10
autodiff10
pytorch10
quantum-chemistry10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apotapov/tafl
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:188 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
apotapov/gdx-artemis
Sep 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:142 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years
gameartemisentityintegraterefactored
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