Maria Leal
Software Engineer at Apple
South Bend, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Leal is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on network infrastructure, distributed systems, and operating systems, currently contributing to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Her background blends academic research—assistant professor-level involvement at Notre Dame Research in data security, zero-trust architectures, and LLM vulnerability analysis—with hands-on engineering in cloud access security, Kubernetes, Go, and cryptography. She has built web3 and smart contract prototypes, led data pipelines for renewable energy analysis, and shipped security and observability tooling during internships at Apple and Honeywell. Based in South Bend, she pairs rigorous research instincts with production-grade DevOps and cloud-native practice, often gravitating toward projects that bridge privacy, decentralization, and scalable infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Notre DameHigh School Diploma College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School Diploma College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Baton Rouge Magnet High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (16)
marc4
doi4
abaqus3
nlm3
toolbox2
kebab-case2
nlp2
ansys2
fortran2
finite-element-analysis1
python1
elastic1
tensor1
image-registration1
image-processing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mholla/growth
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
Subroutines and input files for modeling growth in Abaqus
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 11 commits in 1 year 10 months
mholla/hitchhikers-guide-to-abaqus
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 14 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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