About
I got into programming through a high-school robotics team, where I was the person who actually enjoyed writing the control code at 2am. Now I'm finishing my CS degree and spending most of my free time on side projects — the best way I've found to learn. I've interned twice, shipped features real users touched, and I'm looking for a first role on a team that cares about mentorship and building things well. Still early, still learning fast, genuinely excited about all of it.
Learn relentlessly and build things that are useful, not just impressive.
Principles: Curiosity · Craft · Collaboration · Growth mindset
Experience
Final-year CS · two internships · building side projects to learn
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2024Zillow
Built an internal dashboard in React + GraphQL now used daily by the pricing team.
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2023A YC startup
Shipped the onboarding flow and wrote the first integration tests for the codebase.
Undergraduate TA
2023 – PresentUniversity of Washington
TA for Data Structures — lead two weekly sections of 30 students.
Education
B.S. Computer Science (expected 2025) — University of Washington 2025
Certifications
Meta Front-End Developer — Coursera 2024
AWS Cloud Practitioner — AWS 2023
Projects & publications
StudySync
A study-group matcher for my university. Next.js + Postgres. 400 students signed up in the first month.
LeafID
Hackathon winner — a plant-identification app using a fine-tuned vision model. Built in 36 hours.
tiny-db
A toy key-value store I built to understand B-trees and WALs. Well-commented, for learning.
References
“Leah shipped like a second-year engineer, not an intern. Asked great questions and left the codebase better than she found it.”