Summary
Richard Leon is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack Java systems, currently contributing to Major League Baseball's engineering organization. He has a strong background in low-latency trading platforms and enterprise web applications, having designed ultra low-latency bond trading engines, RESTful services, and an Excel add-in front end earlier in his career. Comfortable across back-end, front-end, and DevOps responsibilities, he has led teams at Brokerage Management Solutions and implemented concrete business and legal risk controls for trading systems. Based in Miami, Richard combines pragmatic engineering with operational ownership—providing on-call support and overseeing deployments—to keep production systems reliable. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Florida and brings a track record of turning complex, regulated requirements into auditable, production-ready software.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Florida International University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Florida
English, Spanish, Japanese