Natalia Leitner Email & Phone Number

Germany

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Front-End Developer @ travel portalSep 2022 - Mar 2023• Led FE development for self-service features, enabling users to view and change their booking data online instead of contacting customer service• Closely collaborated with the rest of the development team, product owner and designer to come up with technically feasible solutions and deliver user friendly features• Owned tech debt backlog, reducing vulnerabilities and improving developer experience through core dependency updates and refactoring• Conducted accessibility audit and implemented changes to meet AA standards, inspiring the team to consider accessibility as part of the development process

London, England, United Kingdom

___Full Stack Developer @ bioTech company May-Aug 2021• Main contributor in development of an MVP for generating user-targeted content suggestions• Applied data analytics skills to conduct data collection, clearing and formatting, as well as setting up and training ML model in AWS Personalize, and parameter tuning• Authored a set of lambdas (Node.js) to feed real-time user data into the model and an API for results consumption• Led development of a React web app for output visualisation and comparison with the current 3rd party system which helped to prove project viability___Front-End Team Lead @ electronic component distributorMar-Apr 2021• Led the FE team in final stages of development (Next.js) with the aim of moving the new responsive basket page into production environment, taking into account 32 market-language combinations and 5 browsers• Coordinated with teams connected to our page, organised group QA sessions, documented and fixed bugs, set up experiments with Optimisely, updated stakeholders on progress• Encouraged shy team members to speak up and ask question; consequently improved team collaboration and satisfaction___Back-End Developer @ electronic component distributorAug 2020-Feb 2021• Worked on developing a suite of microservices in an event driven architecture linking legacy APIs with 3rd party marketplace in order to push products' price and stock changes in real time• Led the development of newly added AWS services (lambdas, database, queues and topics) while coaching junior team members in JavaScript• Prepared services for production (e2e testing, logging and monitoring, coordination of additional external penetration and performance testing)• Created and managed infrastructure with Terraform and in-house frameworks, utilising GitLab CI to ensure consistent pipeline checkpoints• Advocated and implemented retrospectives which resulted in more development time, clarity of work and processes and a supportive team culture

London, United Kingdom

___Tech Lead @ non-profit foundationMay-July 2020• Led development of an MVP for a dynamic website using Next.js• Independently completed the highest pointed tickets that often involved additional research• Worked closely with the PA to create, refine and prioritise requirements ensuring clarity in their technical descriptions; consequently reducing planning and refinement time significantly• Strongly focused on upskilling junior team by pair programming, thorough code reviews and organising knowledge sharing sessions• Empowered junior team that was still learning how to manage their work, contribute to meetings and shape requirements___Full Stack Developer @ media and advertising groupFeb 2019-April 2020• Contributed to the development of a web app portal for management of targeted advertising campaigns, gaining the view of the entire project from the first line of code to its production ready state• Although primarily focused on front-end development, contributed to back-end code as required which increased overall team productivity• Leveraged the position of a sole full stack developer on the team by bringing a unique insight into team discussions and earned a role of an integration champion• Starting with no prior React knowledge grew to an equal contributor to senior colleagues, being able to contribute independently and use best practices• Helped forming an impeccable team and took away lots of learnings about importance of agile practices on team building, sustainable development and product usability___Full Stack Developer @ fintech startup Nov-Dec 2018• Worked in a small team developing a PWA prototype of a payment platform• Quickly advanced in JavaScript and Vue and independently implemented new app pages as well as integrated the app with an open banking API sandbox• As part of the first professional project got a practical introduction into software architecture, agile development and source control

Master Of Science - Ms, Computing And Information Systems, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Electronic Engineering and Computer Science society, Enactus society, Business & Enterprise society.

Honours Bachelor'S Degree, International Business With Marketing, 2:1

Activities and Societies: VP of Erasmus Student Network society, Winner of Real Employability Competition, Winner of Peter B. Smith.

Business And Tourism

Activities and Societies: Erasmus Student Network (ESN)