Leighton Wallace
Engineering Manager at Hayden AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeighton Wallace is an engineering manager in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and high-performing teams. He’s led product-focused groups at BioRender and Lever and now manages event-processing for traffic-violation workflows at Hayden AI, translating complex realtime data into actionable signals. A hands-on former senior engineer, he has shipped features ranging from enterprise SSO and GDPR automation to responsive web transitions and real-time frameworks. He contributes backend improvements to open-source realtime projects (e.g., Sharedb) and has a track record of improving processes—introducing RFCs and storage guilds to raise technical decision quality. Leighton pairs technical depth in distributed systems and storage with a talent for hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers to grow sustainably. His background in Stanford’s Symbolic Systems program underpins a product-minded, systems-oriented approach to engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Symbolic Systems, BS Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
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Github Skills (19)
operational-transformation10
javascript10
middleware10
operational-transform10
transform10
nodejs10
async9
testing9
asynchronous9
keyboard9
realtime-database9
ruby-on-rails6
mouse6
microsoft-graph-api6
css6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
share/sharedb
May 2018 - May 2018
Realtime database backend based on Operational Transformation (OT)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Leighton focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the realtime database. They introduced new middleware actions for document retrieval, improving performance and code clarity. The user refactored the existing code to trigger different events based on retrieval type and added tests. They also fixed variable names and updated the code to use the new events.
backend-databaserealtimetransformationreal-timeoperational
l8on/affiance
Dec 2015 - Apr 2021
A tool to manage and configure git hooks.
Contributions:3 reviews, 169 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 4 months
git-hookspre-commitgit-addonsdevtoolconfigure
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