Leo Jweda
Founder at Jweda Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLeo Jweda is a founder and senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building full‑stack systems and developer tooling across startups and scale-ups in Toronto. He has driven measurable impact—from cutting test times by 80% and saving hours per build, to enabling monthly loan sales through feature work—while owning end-to-end features and libraries at companies like ApplyBoard, Shopify, Drop, and Financeit. Leo builds pragmatic internal platforms (logging, feature‑flagging/A-B testing, JWT proxying) that improve reliability, observability, and developer productivity, and he mentors teams through technical hiring and adoption of in‑house tools. He balances product-minded engineering with operational rigor, having led Rails upgrades, security hardening, and architecture work that translated into tangible business outcomes. As a workshop leader at Trent University and a recent founder at Jweda Labs, he combines hands‑on coding with teaching and entrepreneurship. He explicitly does not engage with external recruiters, reflecting a direct, founder‑driven approach to opportunities.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computing Systems specializing in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computing Systems specializing in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Trent UniversityHigher National Diploma Computing, Higher National Diploma Computing at College of Banking and Financial StudiesMaster of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at Queen's University
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (82)
interface-builder10
linux9
tooltips9
checkmark9
ruby9
homebrew9
textmate9
html8
cli8
prompt8
command-line-tool8
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
mvc8
administration8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
leojweda/Mypothesis
Oct 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:79 commits, 3 issues in 4 months
leojweda/leojweda.github.io
Feb 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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