Brandur Leach

Brandur Leach has worked in the software engineering industry since 2005. Brandur began their career at Research in Motion as a Software Release Manager, working on an internal build request and configuration tool. In 2006, they became a Lead Software Developer at Embracer, where they rebuilt Gift, a popular Gnutella client. Brandur also worked as a Contractor at Pointer Advertising, designing a community-based video-sharing site and implementing it on Rails. From 2007 to 2011, they were a Software Developer at Mentor Engineering, working on the company's major software projects and eventually moving into a senior development role. From 2011 to 2015, they worked at Heroku as a Principal Member of Technical Staff. Brandur then joined Stripe as a Member of Engineering Staff, working on the core abstractions and design of the public API. In 2021, they began working at Crunchy Data as a Software Engineer, working on the company's hosted multi-cloud database platform.

Brandur Leach attended the University of Calgary from 2002 to 2007 and earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering.