Lesley Cordero
Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLesley Cordero is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at The New York Times with nine years of experience building data platforms, observability tooling, and reliable production systems. She previously led integrations and developer-facing APIs at Google for Education and drove org-wide observability and reliability strategy at Teachers Pay Teachers, consistently moving teams from toil to SLO-driven decision making. Lesley combines hands-on engineering—implementing OpenTelemetry tracing libraries and Node.js observability packages—with people-centric leadership, mentoring senior engineers and shaping on-call culture. She prioritizes inclusive teams and practical reliability practices, often advocating for the needs of the most vulnerable employees first. Outside of architecture and platform work she’s pragmatic about adoption challenges across languages, vendors, and executive stakeholders, and she’s open to mentoring underrepresented engineers and speaking on leadership, SRE, and organizational change.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
dependency-management10
devsecops10
travis10
vulnerability-scanners10
security10
security-vulnerability10
vulnerability-detection10
package-management9
displays9
cicd9
python9
software-composition-analysis9
vulnerabilities9
django7
database6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lesleycla/demo
Jul 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 174 pushes, 320 branches in 7 years 9 months
pyupio/pyup-django
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Displays a red warning banner if you are running an insecure Django release.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 3 months
pythondisplaysdjangosecuritybanner
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