Leila Muhtasib
Director Of Engineering - Google Maps For IOS & Android
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeila Muhtasib is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-impact mobile platforms, currently directing the iOS and Android Google Maps teams to deliver seamless, cross-device mapping experiences that drive user growth and partner ecosystems. She combines deep technical roots—ranging from hands-on mobile SDK and client work to infrastructure and search leadership—with product-minded orchestration across large, distributed teams. Her background includes building mission-critical mobile apps and media systems at Cisco and early-career engineering and editing roles that reflect strong technical communication skills. Leila is also a co-founder and board member of Teach A Class, channeling product and operations experience into tackling educational inequality through open courseware and virtual classrooms. An occasional open-source technical writer, she’s contributed clear, practical documentation to widely used tooling like git-extras, showing attention to developer experience as well as shipping code. Based in Mountain View, she blends strategic growth ownership with a pragmatic, delivery-focused engineering approach.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Hacker SchoolThe University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (6)
git10
documentation10
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tj/git-extras
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Leila primarily contributed to the project by creating and updating documentation. They added and modified man pages for various git-extras commands, including `git-summary`, `git-effort`, `git-info`, and `git-undo`. Their work involved documenting command options, usage examples, and descriptions, effectively enhancing the usability and understanding of the `git-extras` toolset.
changeloggit-hooksgit-addonsreplcommit
muhtasib/git-rollback
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
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