Leo Martins
Software Engineer (New Grad)
Toronto, ON leo.martins@uwaterloo.ca +1 (647) 555-0132 github.com/leomartins leomartins.dev
Summary
New-grad software engineer with two internships and a shipped side project. Comfortable across the stack in TypeScript and Python; strong on data structures and a fast learner.
Experience
Software Engineering Intern
Shopify · Remote
May 2024 — Aug 2024
- Built a merchant analytics widget in React + GraphQL adopted by 4,200 stores in its first month.
- Cut a checkout API endpoint's p95 latency 28% by adding a Redis cache layer.
- Wrote 60+ unit tests, raising the team's coverage on the module from 54% to 91%.
Undergraduate TA · Algorithms
University of Waterloo · Waterloo, ON
Sep 2023 — Apr 2024
- Tutored 80+ students in data structures and algorithms; class median rose 11%.
- Automated grading scripts that saved the teaching team ~15 hours per week.
Skills
TypeScript · Python · React · Node.js · SQL · Data Structures · Git · REST APIs
Education
University of Waterloo
B.A.Sc. Computer Engineering
2020 — 2025
Dean's Honours List · 3 co-op terms