Connor Leech
Software Engineer at Octave
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolConnor Leech is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of full-stack experience building scalable web and e-commerce platforms from startup to enterprise. Based in San Francisco, he has driven performance improvements and customer-facing features at companies like Phone2Action and CommentSold, and most recently held engineering roles at Apple and Octave. He co-founded and served as CTO of a startup, pairing product-minded leadership with hands-on work across PHP, Node.js, Vue.js, and JS front-ends. His open-source cs-fundamentals repo highlights practical DSA implementations and UI examples, reflecting a strong foundation in algorithms as well as pragmatic UI/CSS skills. Known for solving high-volume performance problems (multi-million request pages) and automating data-cleanup at scale, Connor blends operational rigor with fast iteration.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Cape TownBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science at UC Santa Barbara
English
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Github Skills (29)
algorithm10
algorithms10
programming-language10
javascript10
twitter-bootstrap10
data-structure10
coding10
data-structures10
gcloud9
laravel9
css9
server9
php9
heroku9
google-cloud-storage9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
connor11528/cs-fundamentals
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
🎓 Data structures and algorithms
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 107 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Connor demonstrated proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, contributing to algorithm and data structure implementations, a flexbox-based navigation system, and solving coding challenges. They also added examples of CSS styling and HTML. The user worked on JavaScript for algorithm problems, HTML for the navigation menu, and CSS.
javascriptfundamentalsalgorithms-and-data-structuresdata-structurescodingame
connor11528/express-angular-sms
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 6 months
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