Leo Salat is a software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable systems and a curiosity-driven approach that emphasizes "build it, break it, make it better." Based in San Francisco, he has shipped production software at Workday and continues to seek impactful roles as an open candidate. His background in incident management and technical support at Pearson gives him a practiced ability to restore services, coordinate cross-functional teams, and translate outages into long-term fixes. Trained at App Academy and with a B.S. in Materials Science, he brings a unique blend of disciplined engineering methodology and hands-on problem-solving from both software and physical-materials domains. Colleagues value his instinct for seeing how things work and his willingness to dismantle systems to improve their resilience and design. He pairs a pragmatic, operations-minded perspective with a continual hunger to learn and tackle tough technical challenges.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at App Academy
B.S, Materials Science and Engineering, Polymers, Ceramics, Biomaterials, B.S, Materials Science and Engineering, Polymers, Ceramics, Biomaterials at Iowa State University
Non-degree program, Singaporean society, Japanese language, electronic materials, psychology, Non-degree program, Singaporean society, Japanese language, electronic materials, psychology at National University of Singapore
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