Leo Qiu
Senior Software Engineer at Ardan Labs
Reno, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolLeo Qiu is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling cloud-native services, currently at Ardan Labs and advising COOK Alliance. He led major rewrites and migrations for Bethesda’s mods platform—replacing Elasticsearch with PGSearch, implementing TimescaleDB+Kafka analytics, and cutting production costs by ~90% through Go and AWS-focused redesigns. A former founder and VP of Engineering for Foodnome, he blends product-minded entrepreneurship with hands-on backend expertise and has shipped full-stack platforms used nationally. He also brings academic and teaching experience from UC Davis and Trilogy, so he’s comfortable translating complex technical problems into teachable, production-ready solutions. Outside work he balances coding and mentoring with rock climbing and family time, reflecting a pragmatic, disciplined approach to engineering and team leadership.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of California, Davis
golang, js/ts, python
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Github Skills (117)
postgresql10
calculator10
javascript10
water10
apache-cordova10
lab-management10
sqlite10
google-sign-in10
testing-library10
oracle-db10
mobile10
microsoft-sql-server10
nodejs10
objective-c10
ios10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
leogoesger/idea-client
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:33 PRs, 53 pushes, 29 branches in 6 months
foodnome/foodnome-api
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
foodnome api built with Express, GraphQL, Sequelize and Postgres
Contributions:41 PRs, 111 pushes, 42 branches in 12 days
graphqlpostgresql
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