Leon Kao
Senior Software Development Engineer at Workday
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolLeon Kao is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Auckland with 10 years of hands-on experience building full-stack Java and JavaScript applications. He brings deep expertise in J2EE, Spring, Hibernate and modern front-end stacks (React, ExtJS) alongside Node/Express backends and relational databases like MySQL and MS-SQL. A technical lead at Kiwiplan for a decade, he oversaw full SDLC delivery, tier‑3 support processes and introduced developer KPIs to measurably improve team performance before joining Workday. Certified as an Oracle OCPJWCD and AWS Solutions Architect Associate, he combines enterprise-grade architecture skills with cloud and container tooling such as Docker and CI pipelines (GitLab/Jenkins). Pragmatic and process-minded, Leon is as comfortable debugging production issues as he is coaching a small team to raise engineering standards.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool, Highschool at Pakuranga CollegeBachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at University of Auckland
English, Chinese, JapaneseGithub contributions (3)
leonkao/Documents
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
leonkao/Pikachu
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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