# Leo Martel

> Strong Typist

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/leomartel

My name's Leo. My background is in computer science, and I work as a software engineer.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Payments Infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ SENSEI
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Monica, CA
- First engineering employee at early-stage “stealth mode” startup building nutrition and wellness products
- Designed, scoped and specced software architecture, product data model and API, external data integrations, etc
- Developed full stack product prototypes, cloud infrastructure and internal tools in JavaScript, Python and Elixir

### Software Engineer @ Asana
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
- Proposed, designed and led implementation of highly available, type-safe dynamic configuration system
- Diagnosed and resolved stability issues, e.g. improved Redis performance 4x while reducing server costs 20%
- Directed overhaul of marketing website infrastructure and deployment process, reducing downtime over 10x
- Oversaw the operations pager rotation; prioritized and developed improvements in on-call scripts and tools
- Built full-stack product functionality and developer tools in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Scala

### Software Engineer Intern @ Dropbox
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
- Designed and built a portable, scalable continuous deployment system with Docker and Capistrano
- Implemented message queue troubleshooting for a microservice-based node.js app with Redis
- Created a generic “deferred actions” module for Mailbox, including the “send later” command

### Senior Section Leader @ Stanford Computer Science Department
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Stanford, CA
- Taught a weekly discussion section of Programming Abstractions and held weekly office hours
- Debugged, graded, and provided feedback on 106A, 106B, 106X students’ Java and C++ programs
- Led orientation workshops and training exercises for new Section Leaders

### Software Engineer Intern @ Marin Software
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA
- Implementing a system for tracking client FTP, email and Google Analytics uploads
- Building a mechanism for moving arbitrary application data into Hadoop DFS
- Creating an interface to query Hadoop JSON data and display visualizations using Hive and d3.js

### Software Engineer Intern @ Curious.com  (web startup creating an educational video marketplace)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Menlo Park, CA
- Built major front and back end functionality in Javascript/Coffeescript and Ruby/Rails 
- Created animated lesson card template using CSS and jQuery
- Designed and built dynamic module for featuring content using Ruby metaprogramming
- Constructed and utilized robust automated tests using RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/leopmartel
- GitHub: http://www.github.com/lmartel
- Website: http://lpm.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22