Summary
Leah Sapan is a pragmatic CTO and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience architecting and shipping secure, high-performance web applications across healthcare, finance, and e-commerce. She combines hands-on backend expertise (Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL) with production-grade DevOps—Kubernetes on AWS, CI/CD with GitHub Actions—and a proven track record of meeting strict security standards (NIST 800-53, HIPAA). Leah excels at turning messy public datasets into usable products, having ingested and normalized hundreds of gigabytes of data to power analytics and automated decisioning that dramatically improved performance and reduced operational effort. She’s led distributed teams from individual contributor to executive roles, mentors engineers actively, and translates complex technical tradeoffs into business outcomes. Based in Scarborough, Maine, she’s particularly comfortable building elastic architectures that balance rapid iteration with robust compliance and auditability.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of Maine
B.S. Electrical Engineering with a Concentration in Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering with a Concentration in Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science at University of Southern Maine