About

Leah Yukelson Fresco is a Senior Software Engineer at Human Interest, with over 9 years of relevant experience. She has a strong background in software engineering, frontend development, search engine marketing, and testing. Leah's current role at Human Interest involves coordinating with product managers, business stakeholders, and other engineers as the tech lead on a major initiative project. She executes on a wide set of features which involve designing a database architecture, implementing front-end designs, and adding a set of backend endpoints. Leah also delegates work to other engineers to meet business deadlines and has partnered with a senior engineer to implement two-factor authentication using the Twilio API and built the front-end registration user experience. Additionally, she has added a suite of end-to-end testing to ensure functioning key user experiences and performs on-call duties which involve delegating and fixing bugs reported by users and ensuring the site stays running. Prior to her current role, Leah worked as a Software Engineer at Human Interest, where she gained experience in NodeJS, ExpressJs, ReactJs, Typescript, GraphQL, Sequelize, and added a suite of end-to-end testing to ensure functioning key user experiences. She also worked at Macy's as an Assistant Manager, Search Engine Marketing, where she optimized a multi-million dollar monthly budget for bidding on a segment of paid search campaigns which led to a lift in sales by 138% and an increase in return on ad spend by 24%. Leah holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University and has completed a Full-stack Web Development course from Hackbright Academy. Her technical skills include Software Engineering, Frontend Development, Search, Test, Typescript, Backend, and ReactJS. She is a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual who is passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions.