Summary
Leslie Passante is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building elegant, high-performance web applications and leading teams through successful product launches. Skilled in JavaScript, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js and AWS cloud-native architectures, Leslie has taken core developer experience responsibilities—from founding Chord’s SDK team to shipping starter kits used by over 95% of customers. As a manager and technical lead at Fugue, Leslie delivered customer-facing consoles and desktop visualization tools for cloud security, blending UX sensibility with rigorous backend design. Now at Vanta, Leslie continues to focus on developer-facing engineering and secure cloud deployments, bringing a newsroom-honed habit of shipping polished features under tight deadlines. Based in Portland, Maine, Leslie pairs a journalism and multimedia design background with deep hands-on engineering, making complex systems approachable for teams and customers alike.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Journalism and Mass Communication, Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Journalism and Mass Communication, Multimedia Design at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill