Summary
Leo Deng is a software engineer and Purdue University computer science student with 14 years of hands-on experience across high-impact engineering teams, including recent roles at SpaceX, Tesla, John Deere, and an incoming summer position at Google. He blends machine learning research and production engineering—leading ML@Purdue as president, contributing to pre-trained model research, and building AI/infra and embedded IoT systems in industry. His background spans startups to large aerospace and automotive firms, with practical experience in AI infrastructure, Starshield/Core Infra, and embedded StarFire systems. Leo has also worked in research labs (Notre Dame Sustainable Computing) and open-source initiatives (AWS contributor program), showing a mix of academic rigor and production focus. Based in Simi Valley, he’s actively seeking new opportunities and brings an uncommon combination of early leadership experience and recurring short-term industry contributions that accelerate project impact.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
Westlake High School
Research Computing, Research Computing at University of Notre Dame