Leah Ferrell
Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) at Workday
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah 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
Github Skills (9)
imessage6
redux6
react5
simulator5
javascript4
pixel-art1
rust1
intel1
pixel1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leah3393/Stock-Index-Predictor
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 51 pushes in 1 month
leah3393/Blocs
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 32 commits, 30 pushes in 1 month
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