Summary
Leah Ferrell is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems with 12 years of professional experience and a strong backend focus across Kotlin, Rust, Scala, Swift, and Java. She has led teams and modernization efforts at Capital One—driving platform upgrades, multi-tenant configuration-as-code, and performance improvements that delivered measurable customer impact. Currently at Workday, she blends production-grade distributed systems design with a pragmatic love of clean, simple code and cross-team collaboration. Leah also took a deliberate career break to pursue game art and story development, demonstrating creative problem solving and a willingness to shift focus where impact or passion dictates. A UT Dallas grad and lifelong tinkerer, she pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship experience and a knack for improving operational reliability under real-world constraints. Based in Boulder, she’s equally likely to be found optimizing microservices as sketching game scenes or building with LEGO.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.85, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.85 at The University of Texas at Dallas