Cody Leff
Senior Frontend Software Engineer at ByteDance
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Leff is a Senior Frontend Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of full-stack experience and a knack for shipping polished user interfaces at scale. Currently building TikTok Shop e-commerce and affiliate LIVE tools at ByteDance, he previously contributed front-end improvements to the high-profile Apache Superset data visualization platform—adding UX features like double-click chart selection and chart thumbnails while improving Cypress and React test coverage. His background spans startups and product teams (Preset, Ganymede, Regard) and a Stanford engineering education with an architectural design tilt, which informs a design-minded approach to frontend problems. Known for pragmatic engineering and attention to testability, he pairs product-focused UI work with reliable implementation details that survive at production scale. An obsessive Cheesecake Factory fan since childhood, he brings the same consistency and enthusiasm to building delightful user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Civil Engineering – Architectural Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Civil Engineering – Architectural Design at Stanford University
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
cypress10
front-end-development10
react10
testing9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/superset
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:168 reviews, 50 commits, 77 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Apache Superset data visualization platform. Their work involved updating and testing the dashboard edit interface, including reordering tabs and renaming components. They also addressed testing-related issues in both Cypress and React test files and integrated Matomo tracking into the documentation. Furthermore, the user implemented double-click functionality for chart selection in the visualization gallery and added chart thumbnails.
pythonapache-supersetflaskbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
cestastanford/grandtour
Oct 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:344 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 4 years 2 months
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