Mejin Leechor
Practice Lead at Lionheart Pacific
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMejin Leechor is a practice-focused software leader with eight years of experience building collaborative, mission-driven engineering teams and product delivery practices across public and private sectors. Currently Practice Lead at Lionheart Pacific after leading cross-organizational initiatives as a Senior Software Engineer at Kohl’s Technology, Mejin combines hands-on engineering with a people-first approach that emphasizes psychological safety, growth mindset, and creative problem-solving. Their background at VMware Tanzu Labs and Pivotal reflects deep experience in agile/XP practices—pair programming, TDD, frequent releases—helping clients deploy mission-critical applications for government and enterprise. A graduate student and interdisciplinary artist-scholar studying creative practice and spirituality, Mejin brings uncommon perspective on human-centered technology and organizational culture. Based in Los Angeles, they blend rigorous technical delivery with facilitation skills learned in nonprofit and community-facing roles, making them adept at translating complex stakeholder needs into practical software outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude Music, Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude Music at Davidson CollegeMaster of Arts - MA, Master of Arts - MA at Claremont School of Theology
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Github Skills (23)
server-side9
caching8
rendering8
server-side-rendering7
react7
gnupg6
flask6
flink-streaming6
flask-restful6
docker6
linux6
apache-flink6
hadoop6
environmental5
pivotal-tracker3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rookLab/react-component-caching
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Speedier server-side rendering with component caching in React 16
Contributions:35 commits, 13 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
reactcachingrenderingcacheserver-side
radiumteam/triviagame
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 20 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 days
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