# Leo Qiu > I code during the week, climb on the weekend, and lots of family in between! Location: Reno, Nevada, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/leoqiu Senior Software Engineer at Ardan Labs and Co-founder of Foodnome.com. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ardan Labs Jan 2020 – Present My role allowed me to actively participate in a variety of pivotal projects in Microsoft Bethesda, leading to substantial enhancements in our service offerings: Service Rewrite: - Led the rewriting of Bethesda's mods API, title-storage, and message-of-the-day services by utilizing Go for improved efficiency and performance. - Successfully deployed these revamped services on AWS in a production environment, resulting in a remarkable 90% cost reduction. Bethesda Mods v2 Stats: - Spearheaded the implementation of a robust statistics system using Timescale DB and Kafka, enhancing data analytics and insights. - Orchestrated the deployment of this system on AWS through Kubernetes, ensuring seamless performance in a production setting. Bethesda Mods v2 PGSearch: - Directed the migration of the service from ElasticSearch to PGSearch, achieving a 100% removal of ElasticSearch from the Bethesda Mods v2 service. - Oversaw the deployment of this service in a production environment, contributing to the optimization of our search capabilities. ### Software Consultant @ COOK Alliance Jan 2023 – Present ### Co-Founder @ Foodnome (acquired by COOK Alliance) Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Oakland, California, United States Foodnome is an online market place for home restaurants. It provides a tool for home chefs to sell nutritious home-cooked meals to their community, it also empowers cooks who might find it difficult to find an entry point into the competitive food world. · VP of Engineering, and Co-Founder, responsible for operations and strategy across the company · Directly managing dev team to build and maintain the entire platform · Sales, distribution, and marketing · #1 home restaurant market place in the US · Received international press (NPR, LA Times, Press Enterprise) https://foodnome.com/ ### Lead Software Engineer @ University of California, Davis Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Davis, CA California eFlows is an interactive website that allows users to explore and visualize reference-condition streamflow patterns across California. Features include a natural stream classification geodatabase, reference hydrographs, and descriptive flow metrics, as well as download capacities. The website will eventually encompass three key components - Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Ecology - across the State's complex hydroscape to inform scientifically defensible environmental water management decision-making in California. Live website: https://eflows.ucdavis.edu/ 🚀✨ ### Instructor - Web Developer Bootcamp @ Trilogy Education Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sacramento, California Area Full-stack web development instructor who leads a group of 50 students in a six-month-long program. I teach from HTML/CSS all the way to build a full stack web application using React, Angular, Node, Express, GraphQL, Mongo, SQL, and many more existing technologies. ### Assistant Instructor - Web Developer Bootcamp @ Trilogy Education Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Sacramento, California Area Assistant Instructor teaching Fullstack web development in a 6-month web developer program. • Lecture on different technologies including HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery, React/Redux, Express, Sequelize, Mongoose and etc • Reinforce lessons by reviewing material with students one-on-one • Adjust classroom activities to accommodate the capability of each student • Create coding challenges to engage students with real-world applications ### Web Developer Intern @ FullStack Labs Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sacramento, California Area Fullstack application development using React/Node/Express/Sequelize/Postgres: • Build RESTful API with Node and Express for efficient and scalable data flow. • Implement Modular front-end components using React and Redux. • Perform unit testings using Mocha, Chai and Jest. • Perform e2e testing with Selenium web driver using NightwatchJs ### Application Engineer @ Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Visicon tech.) Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Napa, CA Application engineer for custom machine vision solutions, from concept to installation. • Develop lighting methods and complex vision solutions to automate the defect inspection process. • Use Python to visualize 3D data, and write algorithms to perform dimensional measurements and defect detection for initial feasibility studies. • Calibrate and deliver multiple measurement and inspection systems using standard artifact to achieve micron level accuracy and repeatability. • Generate Python scripts to process static repeatability, GRR, and correlation results. ### Parts Engineering Intern @ SSL Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Duties ranged from parts testing to data review and analysis using Python. Worked closely with customers and suppliers to ensure the products we purchased met qualification standards. • Data Review using MATLAB • Defective parts testing and analysis on electronic components ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of California, Davis Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/leo-qiu - Website: https://leogoesger.io/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/leoqiu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/leoqiu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22