# Leonora Tindall

> software only matters as much as it matters to people.

Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/leonora

I am a software engineer working in Rust, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. I believe in creating robust systems with the user's interests genuinely in mind through agile development, user-focused design and analysis, and strong typing where possible. Check out my website at https://nora.codes.

My feelings on cryptocurrency are well summed up by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g. They are poorly designed, poorly implemented, and cannot deliver on their promises - and even if they could, the world they want to create would be worse than this one.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Fastly
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Fastly
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Cancer IQ
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Designed and implemented a reliable and performant architecture for patient data analysis
- Maintained, upgraded, and operated a > 40,000 line server-side Rust codebase
- Coordinated large API changes between Rust, Ruby, TypeScript, and Elixir services
- Conducted interviews to grow a busy engineering team

### Software Engineer @ Freifunk Bremen
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Developed a greenfield telecommunications project in collaboration with a global remote team.
- Designed and built a testing framework for eventually consistent systems.
- Collaborated on the design of an extensible and secure service API.
- Created ergonomic and easy-to-use APIs using Rust’s powerful static type system.

### Information Technology Instructor @ Packt
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Janesville/Beloit, Wisconsin Area
I produced video courses on Rust and Go programming for Packt's online learning platform.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cancer IQ, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area
- Worked with a small team of engineers to develop clinical software in a DevOps-heavy environment.
- Designed and implemented graph algorithms to search and analyze health data using the Rust language.
- Worked within an agile framework with 2-week sprints to rapidly deploy new features and fixes.
- Created a monitoring and alerting system to ensure uptime of a large Kubernetes deployment.

### IT Services Assistant II @ Beloit College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Janesville/Beloit, Wisconsin Area
As an IT Services assistant, I managed the college's network architecture and inventory management systems, enabled SAML integrations between web services, and administered Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.

### Software Engineering Intern @ güdTECH, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area
- Worked with a small team of engineers to build developer productivity tooling.
 - Built command line tools using Go, working with the internals of Docker and Docker Compose
 - Worked with senior engineers to orchestrate onboarding and automated testing of microservices.

### IT Intern @ CyberTech
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Managed the networks for the CyberHIVE and iHive facilities, as well as helping out at events. Used Aruba and Juniper networking gear extensively.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Beloit College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/noracodes
- Website: https://nora.codes
- GitHub: https://github.com/NoraCodes

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Last updated: 2026-03-22