# Leandro Taveras > Senior Software Engineer at Netflix Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/leandro ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Citadel Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area Python, Go ### Software Engineer II @ Lyft Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area Python, Go ### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Saved external platforms 20 hours/week by exposing internal finance and risk-related account management controls • Enabled flexibly collecting and representing legally required data, facilitating identity verification for external platforms • Composed queries identifying violated relational invariants and wrote migrations in Ruby to fully reconcile them ### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Designed & implemented a framework to streamline testing whether a user/page/etc can edit various post attributes • Transitioned post editing logic to a component-esque framework, leading to a more modular & readable implementation • Leveraged said components to build a tool visualizing editing permissions, saving engineers time when triaging issues • Centralized scattered editing permissions logic & validated changes originating from both the the front & back-end ### Software Engineer Intern @ Lyft Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area • Architected, implemented & deployed a drop-in replacement for a critical service in Go to relay delayed HTTP requests • Built tools in Python automating routine & repeated DynamoDB interactions (e.g. deleting indices) for on-call engineers • Implemented scalable, real-time analytics to provide visual & statistical insight into large DynamoDB tables ### Software Engineer Co-op @ Intuit Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA • Built responsive web components with React and Redux as part of the Transactions team within QuickBooks Online. • Leveraged internal machine-learning APIs to provide customers with personalized financial projections. • Established the use of geolocation APIs in Java to better connect regional business owners. • Implemented filtering payments by date with JavaScript and GraphQL to improve the item selection experience. • Automated end-to-end workflow testing with Selenium and WebdriverIO. ### Software Engineer Co-op @ clypd, inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Somerville, MA • Led development of a new API endpoint design in Go to allow for multiple types (CSVs/files/etc) to be returned instead of just JSON. • Created instances of a monitoring pattern in Go for database health to alert teams through Datadog when internal metrics identified an issue. • Initiated a HipChat plugin ”optimizing” lunch time that has been used thousands of times and continues to see daily engagement. • Composed SQL queries and ActiveRecord migrations in Ruby to update database table structure and content. • Advocated for architectural tasks and technical debt and participated in code reviews. ### Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA TA'd for several sections of Algorithms and Data Structures ### Software Engineering Intern @ Haymarket Media US Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area • Developed content management solutions as part of the Web Development scrum team • Simulated and tested expected user behavior in C# with xUnit and Moq. • Upgraded and maintained a Python script monitoring the Jenkins server, which provided feedback to those who pushed broken branches. ### Summer Intern @ River Dell Regional School District Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Oradell, NJ Paid intern for the Technology Department for the River Dell School District during the summer between my Senior and Freshman year. My responsibilities included: managing the intake and physical logistics of managing over a thousand student laptops, assisting in the imaging process, updating of computer labs, taking helpdesk queries, re-assigning laptops from rising seniors to incoming freshman, as well as installing and maintaining A/V equipment in classrooms. ### Intern @ River Dell Regional School District Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Oradell, NJ 2 semester internship with the Technology Department at River Dell High School. Responsibilities included managing the helpdesk, maintaining the helpdesk queue, and performing classroom calls should the problem mandate it. Also assisted in performing network maintenance as well as set up ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 ### River Dell Regional High School Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/leandrotaveras --- Source: https://flows.cv/leandro JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/leandro/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22