Brenna Leker
Mid Career Break at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenna Leker is a Seattle-based software engineer and manager with 11 years of experience building and shipping full-stack products across startups and large companies, currently leading engineering at Leafly. She brings hands-on expertise in Java, JavaScript frameworks (Angular, Vue, Redux), Go, and cloud services from roles at Amazon, RStudio, Upstatement, and Leafly. Brenna has a track record of launching greenfield AWS-facing products, reducing manual testing effort through automation, and tackling tech debt while driving design and test coverage. She pairs technical leadership with a maker’s curiosity—learning new stacks quickly and mentoring teams to deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Her background in education and language studies gives her a collaborative, communicative approach to cross-functional work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at Ada Developers AcademyBachelors of Arts in Education major in Spanish, Bachelors of Arts in Education major in Spanish at Eastern Washington University
Github Skills (17)
tac9
rails8
scrabble7
react7
android-application6
leaflet5
javascript4
map-box4
rails-app4
ada3
twitter3
browser3
java2
flutter2
javascript-api2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Brennaleker/givehaven
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
Brennaleker/C3Projects--VideoStoreAPI
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:41 pushes, 4 branches in 8 days
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