Summary
Mike Leeder is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with five years of professional engineering experience and a longer background in systems and IT administration. He builds robust integrations and developer tools, specializing in Python, API reverse-engineering, Selenium-based automation, and backend services, and has experience across TypeScript/React microservices and .NET systems. Mike has repeatedly delivered hard-to-implement external platform integrations while maintaining strong test coverage and improving internal dashboards and developer experience. His earlier career managing servers, Active Directory, and EMR systems gives him practical operational instincts that inform reliable production engineering. Currently at Capitalize after a stint integrating LLMs, RabbitMQ, and SQLAlchemy at Workese, he blends tooling-savvy and hands-on problem solving to tame brittle external APIs and ship pragmatic solutions.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at The Tech Academy