Leslie Carr
Director Of Engineering at Fastly
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeslie Carr is a Director of Engineering in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building and scaling platform and growth engineering teams across startups and large companies. She currently leads Fastly’s Compute Platform organization and has a track record of taking teams from pre-seed to product-market fit, most recently growing Pando from 6 to 20 engineers. A hands-on operator with deep infrastructure and SRE roots (Google, Wikimedia, Clover, Quip/Slack), she blends backend and platform expertise with product-minded leadership. Leslie is also an engineering leadership coach who helps managers level up communication, impact, and career ownership while advocating for diverse, inclusive hiring. She frequently speaks at industry conferences like SRECon and Grace Hopper, bringing practical guidance on building resilient, ethical teams. Colleagues describe her philosophy as “planting the seeds of growth”—prioritizing people development as the lever for sustainable technical success.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (83)
graph10
puppet9
hashicorp9
terraform9
automation-framework9
aws9
java9
terraform-cloud8
terraform-module8
wysiwyg8
infrastructure8
hcl8
infrastructure-as-code8
devops8
terragrunt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CumulusNetworks/cldemo-tests
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 7 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 months
testingtesting-toolstest-frameworkserverspec
CumulusNetworks/cldemo
Apr 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:530 commits, 48 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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