Leon To
Senior Software Engineer at Empire Life
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon To is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems, currently driving engineering at Empire Life. He excels across the full stack—React front-ends, Django back-ends, Kotlin services—and has hands-on experience with Docker, Github Actions CI/CD, and Google Cloud. Leon has a track record of shipping robust, tested solutions from greenfield startups to enterprise environments, including secure AWS/Django deployments and performance improvements in C++/Java systems. He combines strong academic grounding in computer engineering from the University of Toronto and UNB with pragmatic Agile practices to accelerate team delivery. Beyond production code, he documents his thinking in a technical portfolio and blog, signaling a habit of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. A detail not always obvious from titles: Leon pairs UI polish with backend automation, bridging design-minded front-end work and developer-facing infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, 3.9, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, 3.9 at University of New BrunswickBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
English, VietnameseProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leon-to/hello-world
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches, 1 issue in 5 years 6 months
tokhoi/Operating_System
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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