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Leela S.

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Software Engineer at Linear
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Leela is a Software Engineer at Linear with extensive experience in machine learning. At Stripe, she was a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead, building new ML solutions and redesigning their core transaction data pipeline. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University and is described by colleagues as "brilliant" and a "fast learner".

Outside of her core engineering roles, Leela has demonstrated a passion for education and advanced mathematics. She spent a semester studying at the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics and has practical experience teaching, having managed a classroom of middle-schoolers as a Bootstrap teacher, a role requiring significant personal maturity.

She fundamentally redesigned Stripes machine learning data pipeline to scale with new APIs and products.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Software Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Applied Machine Learning
As a Tech Lead at Stripe, she built customer-focused ML products from the ground up and actively recruits engineers for ML-focused roles.
Data Engineering
Redesigned Stripe's transaction ML data pipeline for scale and created data pipelines to monitor code velocity and service maturity at Microsoft.
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Career

Work history

8-2022
Software Engineer
Linear
8-2017 - 5-2022
Staff Software Engineer
Stripe
7-2014 - 8-2017
Software Engineer II
Microsoft
6-2013 - 8-2013
SDE Intern
Microsoft
7-2012 - 8-2012
Research Associate Intern
Knorex
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Education
2010 - 2014
Sc. B.
Brown University
2013 - 2013
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Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
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