Leo Qiu is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling cloud-native services, currently at Ardan Labs and advising COOK Alliance. He led major rewrites and migrations for Bethesda’s mods platform—replacing Elasticsearch with PGSearch, implementing TimescaleDB+Kafka analytics, and cutting production costs by ~90% through Go and AWS-focused redesigns. A former founder and VP of Engineering for Foodnome, he blends product-minded entrepreneurship with hands-on backend expertise and has shipped full-stack platforms used nationally. He also brings academic and teaching experience from UC Davis and Trilogy, so he’s comfortable translating complex technical problems into teachable, production-ready solutions. Outside work he balances coding and mentoring with rock climbing and family time, reflecting a pragmatic, disciplined approach to engineering and team leadership.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of California, Davis
Contributions:262 commits, 120 PRs, 187 pushes in 4 years
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