Christina Leichtenschlag
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristina Leichtenschlag is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems for AR/VR and cloud services. She currently contributes to Oculus at Meta, bringing deep backend expertise honed at Amazon where she built resilient, idempotent asynchronous systems for Sumerian and led large refactors on AWS Payments to handle high-volume financial reconciliation. Christina has a proven track record improving performance (notably a ~20% improvement on customer-facing operations) and owning long-lived incidents through on-call rotations and cross-team integration. Comfortable across languages and environments from C++ to cloud-native services, she blends careful system design with pragmatic delivery. She also has hands-on experience from early internships shipping consumer-facing features like sports content and an Android World Cup app, reflecting a balance of backend rigor and product-focused thinking. Known for taking ownership of complex, cross-functional problems, she turns operational pain points into reliable, automated services.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (3)
android-application3
kotlin2
android2
Github contributions (2)
xinalei/SD_WFS
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:35 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
zellarsm/PhonePet
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:20 commits in 1 month
kotlinandroid-applicationandroid
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