Leina Mcdermott
Staff Software Engineer at Ramp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeina Mcdermott is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in New York with seven years of experience building backend systems and leading cross-functional engineering efforts. She has progressed rapidly through technical roles at Ramp and contributed to crypto R&D at Jump Trading, combining production-grade systems thinking with low-level problem solving. Leina is an active open-source contributor to Oso, where she implemented disjunction and negation features in the Polar VM—showing comfort modifying core language/runtime code. Her background in computer and engineering sciences from Dartmouth and hands-on hardware/firmware internships informs a pragmatic approach to system design and testing. Colleagues describe her as a technical leader who mentors teams while still diving into VM internals and performance-sensitive code.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Engineering Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA Engineering Sciences at Dartmouth CollegeDecember Business Bridge Program, December Business Bridge Program at The Tuck School of Business at DartmouthInternational Community SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
rust10
back-end-development10
virtual-machine10
logic-programming9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
osohq/oso
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Deprecated: See README
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:340 reviews, 267 commits, 160 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Leina contributed to the implementation of features related to disjunction and negation within the project. They modified core files, specifically within the `vm.rs` and `polar.rs` files, to add these functionalities. Their work included adding new methods and logic to support these new language features within the Polar virtual machine.
logic-programmingpythonbatteriesosoruby
Dartmouth-Formula-Racing/DFR_CVC
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
Dartmouth Formula Racing Central Vehicle Controller Codebase
Contributions:97 commits, 83 pushes, 26 branches in 3 years 5 months
controllerracingqbcore-frameworkdartmouthformula1
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