Leonard Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Zeck
California, United States
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Top SchoolLeonard Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building consumer and B2B products across React, React Native, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and Elixir. Based in California, he has shipped features and led platform work at startups and scale-stage companies including Motion (YC W20), Avvo, Pike13, and currently Zeck. Leonard pairs front-end craftsmanship with back-end reliability—often bridging mobile, GraphQL, and Node/Rails services—to deliver pragmatic, maintainable systems. He’s an advocate for design patterns, agile practices, and continuous mentorship, frequently helping teams adopt cleaner architectures and stronger testing habits. Comfortable in both consultancy and long-term product roles, he also runs his own past consultancy (Barrison), reflecting an entrepreneurial streak and hands-on ownership. Despite a concise GitHub bio, his long-tenured career shows deep, evolving fluency across modern web and mobile stacks.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Stackoverflow
158reputation
7kreached
8answers
3questions
Github Skills (101)
javascript10
electron10
typescript10
zshrc10
podcast10
frontend10
react10
editor9
emacs9
declarative9
vim9
react-native9
microsoft9
utilities9
ios9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ignu/vs-test
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Run focused unit tests. (Like vim-tests, but for VS Code.)
Contributions:44 commits, 13 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 8 months
unit-testvimvscode
turing-incomplete/turing-incomplete
Jun 2014 - Nov 2017
A Podcast About Programming
Contributions:273 commits, 98 PRs, 120 pushes in 3 years 6 months
podcastcssrubyjekyll
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