Hayley Leblanc
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHayley Leblanc is a senior researcher and file/storage systems expert with a PhD from UT Austin and eight years of experience building robust storage for emerging persistent memory hardware. Now at Microsoft in Seattle, she bridges deep academic research with industry impact after internships at Microsoft and AWS that focused on applied systems problems. Her work blends low-level storage design with practical engineering—she has contributed front-end improvements to the widely used CKAN data portal, showing a rare full-stack sensitivity for usability in data systems. Known for turning rigorous dissertation ideas into production-aware prototypes, she combines systems rigor with attention to user-facing details.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Denison UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (5)
css10
lessc10
ui-design10
javascript4
api4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hayley primarily worked on enhancing the user interface of the CKAN data portal, focusing on the visual presentation of resources. Their commits demonstrate expertise in modifying CSS styles, particularly for resource icons, and integrating new visual elements to improve the user experience. The changes include alterations to LESS files and CSS files which involved the use of CSS to change the appearance of the website. They also worked on the metadata diff feature.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
hayley-leblanc/verus
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Verified Rust for low-level systems code
Contributions:34 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 2 months
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