Summary
Leonard Paquette is a seasoned mobile app developer and senior technologist with over 15 years designing and shipping software across finance, retail, and consumer mobile products. He combines hands-on iOS development—having single-handedly designed, built and launched the Krostik Kraze crossword-style game—with large-scale backend and microservices expertise from his time at Zappos, where he architected AWS-based pipelines to ingest and transform high-volume pricing data into Amazon’s internal services. Certified as an AWS Developer and Solutions Architect, he is fluent in continuous deployment practices and Amazon’s internal CI/CD tools, and has deep experience with message-driven systems, databases (Oracle, MySQL, DynamoDB) and integration patterns like Apache Camel. Previously he led technical teams at Goldman Sachs owning audit, operational risk, and market/credit risk platforms, blending development, data architecture and client-facing responsibilities. Known for clear documentation, mentoring and running cross-functional meetings, he brings a pragmatic balance of product-minded mobile UX work and robust, scalable backend engineering. An interesting thread through his career is the ability to move between single-developer app ownership and architecting multi-threaded, distributed systems that process hundreds of thousands of transactions daily.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French