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Lea Fontaine

UX Designer

Profile

UX designer working where research meets craft. Seven years designing complex tools, the kind with a thousand states and no room for decoration. I earn the layout by watching people use the old one, and I care as much about the empty states as the happy path.

Experience

UX Designer

Studio Verano2020 to Present
  • Redesigned a data-heavy analytics product; task success in usability tests rose from 61% to 88%.
  • Built the pattern library that keeps four squads visually consistent without a weekly design police meeting.
  • Run the research practice: interviews, tests, and a shared archive the whole team searches.

Product Designer

Field & Frame2016 to 2020
  • Took features from sketch to shipped UI for early-stage clients across fintech and health.
  • Introduced prototyping to the pitch process, which cut post-launch rework noticeably.

Recommendations

Lea designs the parts nobody demos: the errors, the empty screens, the edge cases. It shows.
Julian Vasquez · Design Director
Naomi Sharpe · Head of Research

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Profile

QA automation engineer who thinks quality is a design problem, not a gate at the end. Six years building test suites people trust enough to ship on. I chase flaky tests like bugs, keep the pipeline fast, and I would rather prevent a defect than log a pretty report of it.

Experience

QA Automation Engineer

2021 to Present
Northloop Software
  • Built the end-to-end suite that gates every deploy; caught regressions that had been reaching production monthly.
  • Cut CI runtime 55% by parallelizing tests and killing the flaky ones instead of retrying them.
  • Pair with developers on testability so bugs get designed out before they are written.

QA Engineer

2017 to 2021
Proving Ground Games
  • Owned release testing for a live product with weekly updates and zero tolerance for save-corruption bugs.
  • Wrote the first automated smoke tests, replacing a two-hour manual checklist before each build.

Skills

Test AutomationPlaywrightCypressTypeScriptCI/CDAPI TestingPerformance TestingBug TriageTest Strategy

Education

B.S., Software EngineeringInstitute of Technology
2013 to 2017

Languages

English NativeSpanish Native

Clients

Engineering · Release · Support · Product

Recommendations

Tomas made our test suite something engineers actually trust. Green means green now.
Bianca Fischer · QA Lead
Kofi Mensah · Release Manager
Slate

Marcus Bello

Senior Software Engineer

Profile

Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with nine years building and scaling web services. I like taking a slow, flaky system and making it boring: clear boundaries, good tests, and dashboards that tell the truth. Comfortable owning a feature from database schema to production rollout.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Larkfield Systems
2020 to Present
  • Re-architected the billing service around an event queue, cutting failed charges by 40% and making retries auditable.
  • Cut median API latency from 480ms to 120ms by profiling hot paths and adding a read-through cache.
  • Mentor three engineers and run the team's design-review rotation.
2022 to PresentPayments
2020 to 2022Platform

Software Engineer

Cartwright Commerce
2016 to 2020
  • Built the checkout API serving 2M orders a month across web and mobile clients.
  • Introduced integration tests to a legacy codebase, taking release rollbacks from weekly to rare.

Recommendations

Marcus is the person you want on the incident bridge: calm, fast, and he fixes the cause, not the symptom.
Rachel Adeyemi · Engineering Manager
Tom Delaney · Staff Engineer

Skills

  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Node.js
  • REST & gRPC APIs
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • System Design
  • Observability

Languages

EnglishNative
FrenchConversational

Clients

Internal platform teams,Payments,Mobile,Data

Education

B.S., Computer Science
State University, 2012 to 2016
Marcus Bello · Senior Software Engineer
Clean

Profile

Product manager who starts from the problem, not the feature. Seven years shipping B2B and consumer products, most of them in messy zero-to-one territory. I write the crisp one-pager, get engineering and design pointed the same way, and cut scope without cutting the point.

Experience

Tandem Mobile

Senior Product Manager · 2021 to Present
  • Own the activation funnel; a rebuilt onboarding flow lifted week-one retention from 34% to 51%.
  • Killed two underused features and redirected the roadmap toward the workflow customers actually asked for.
  • Run a lightweight discovery cadence: five customer calls a week feeding a public problem backlog.

Kestrel Apps

Product Manager · 2018 to 2021
  • Launched the team-plan tier, which grew to a third of revenue within a year.
  • Partnered with data to replace opinion-led prioritization with a simple impact-versus-effort model the whole team trusted.

Skills

Product StrategyDiscovery & ResearchRoadmappingA/B TestingSQLAnalyticsStakeholder AlignmentGo-to-MarketWriting

Languages

EnglishNative
HindiFluent

Clients

Sales, Support, Design, Data

Recommendations

Priya has the rare knack of saying no to good ideas so the team can ship the right one.
Owen Fitzgerald · VP of Product
Mei Lin · Design Lead

Education

B.A., Economics
Metropolitan University, 2011 to 2015
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