About

Leo Creatini is a Senior Frontend Engineer and Team Lead at Toast, a company that provides cloud-based restaurant management software. He was born in Buenos Aires and moved to the United States at a young age. Leo has a passion for learning new skills and creating meaningful products that spark curiosity, solve important problems, and feel like a natural extension of the body. He specializes in front-end engineering, e-commerce, APIs, prototyping, and collaborating with designers. Leo is proficient in React, GraphQL, NodeJS, MongoDB, Serverless, Firebase, and AWS. Leo is a co-founder of Durango Botanicals, an online CBD e-commerce store that produces and works directly with other hemp farmers in Colorado to yield a high-quality, diverse cannabinoid profile. He owns each step of the process to provide a farm-to-bottle experience and cut out the middlemen, saving customers their hard-earned money. Leo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has completed a Product and Design program at the Startup Institute. He has over nine years of relevant experience and is proficient in Frontend, AWS, Spark, NodeJS, Javascript, and MongoDB. Leo is also interested in learning new languages, philosophy, meditation, and enjoys walks in nature.