Jeremy Leader
Senior Software Engineer at ZipRecruiter
Arcadia, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeremy Leader is a senior software engineer with 14+ years of experience building large-scale ad tech, search, and job-search systems, currently working on job search and infrastructure as code at ZipRecruiter. He designed and led implementation of high-throughput ad serving platforms at Oversee.net and contributed to Yahoo! Search Marketing systems that handled billions of requests and generated significant revenue. Comfortable as both individual contributor and technical lead, he has deep systems, backend, and infrastructure expertise across C/C++, Java, Perl, and modern IaC practices. His career spans pioneering work in virtual worlds and multimedia engines to modern cloud-native tooling, showing a rare continuity from low-level systems to high-traffic web services. Based in Arcadia, CA, he pairs a Caltech engineering foundation with a pragmatic knack for turning math-driven problem solving into robust production systems. An understated constant in his background is thriving on transitions—migrations, acquisitions, and platform rewrites—where reliability and scale matter most.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering & Applied Science, BS, Engineering & Applied Science at California Institute of TechnologyDiploma, Diploma at Princeton Day School
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Github Skills (48)
python8
ansible8
dashboard8
monitoring8
mysql8
visualization7
analytics7
prometheus7
ssh7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
perl-critic6
go6
automation6
devops6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jleader/jlhomebin
Jan 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
jleader/RorScore
Feb 2012 - May 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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