Leah La Salla
Engineering Manager at Caring.com
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLeah La Salla is an engineering manager in Austin with 13 years of experience building and shipping production ML, AR/VR, robotics, and sensor-fusion systems. She founded and led startups and served as CTO before moving into engineering management, bringing hands-on expertise from system architecture to deployed machine-learning products. Leah holds a utility patent covering eight inventions across AI/ML, computer vision, millimeter-wave RF, and unmanned vehicles, and her work is taught at multiple U.S. universities and cited by international public-safety standards. A published IEEE author and guest lecturer, she translates research-grade innovation into practical implementations used in real-world robotics and AR/VR deployments. Known for a playful hacker spirit—summed up by “I hacked NASA with a toaster”—she combines entrepreneurial grit with rigorous technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Arizona State UniversityNational American University
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Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSorceress/vagrant
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
OpenSorceress/settings-repository
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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