Oren Leiman
Software Engineer at Redpanda Data
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOren Leiman is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-focused platforms, currently contributing to Redpanda Data’s streaming platform in Oakland. He has a track record across startups and large companies—including Cisco Meraki and Microsoft—bringing practical expertise in schema and API work, as evidenced by his implementation of the get_schema_subjects endpoint in the popular Redpanda project. Comfortable deep in systems and math, Oren combines low-level attention to correctness with pragmatic engineering that ships features and handles edge cases (early 404 handling and sorted responses). He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BS from UC Santa Cruz, blending solid academic foundations with hands-on product experience. Colleagues describe him as someone who thinks about programming and mathematics a lot and enjoys “blinkenlights,” signaling a playful curiosity about hardware and observability beyond pure software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (15)
c-language10
api10
cprogramming-language10
schema10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
data-integration9
integrations9
json-serialization9
system-integration9
go9
integrate9
api-rest8
api-design8
http-api8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2102 reviews, 350 PRs, 124 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Oren's commits focused on implementing and wiring up the "get_schema_subjects" API endpoint within the Redpanda project. These changes involved modifying the schema registry service, handlers, and store to support retrieval of schema subjects for a given schema ID. The modifications added new routes and handlers to the API and implemented logic to force early 40403 and a sorting list.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
cocoon-labs/deep_thought
Jun 2015 - Sep 2023
We want you to tell us...The Answer
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
answerpython
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