Lea Fairbanks
Owner at LeafLab
Midvale, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLea Fairbanks is an experienced full-stack engineer and engineering manager with 12+ years building scalable web applications and platforms, currently leading developer experience and platform efforts at MasterControl. As founder of Valkoria Software and owner of LeafLab, she has shipped bespoke, production-grade systems—most notably SigningOrder, which processes thousands of mortgage signings monthly and serves tens of thousands of users. Lea blends hands-on LAMP and Java/Angular development with DevEx, DevSecOps, and platform engineering, having optimized CI/CD, introduced ARM64 builds, and slashed PR cycle times dramatically. She thrives mentoring cross-functional teams and converting freelance grit into repeatable engineering practices, while staying engaged in robotics education and field sports — a detail that signals practical leadership and a hands-on, problem-solving temperament.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Stackoverflow
602reputation
78kreached
13answers
7questions
Github Skills (110)
webview10
installer10
high-performance9
rust9
toolchain9
client-library8
angular8
django8
javascript8
sarif8
chat8
react8
typescript8
keybase8
nodejs8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Darunada/namechangr
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
NameChangr is an open source service project that helps people complete their legal documents for a name/gender change in Utah. Please join us to add additional capabilities!
Contributions:95 commits, 7 PRs, 92 pushes in 4 years 3 months
name-genderlegaldjangogenderadditional
Darunada/CoreHelper
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
helper-functions
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