Diana Stephanie Leung

Overview

Principal Engineer at Inlet Studio, focused on payments infrastructure. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 3. Before that: Walmart and Databricks. Most at home with gRPC and Go. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Mar 2024 - Present
   Inlet Studio · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
   • Sit on 2 boards.
2. Senior Backend Engineer

   Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
   Walmart · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Grew the payments platform team from 6 to 37 engineers.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 6.
3. Senior Backend Engineer

   May 2021 - Oct 2022
   Databricks · 1 yr 5 mo · Contract · Dallas, TX
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 655ms to 157ms.
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 8 million transactions a day.
4. Senior Backend Engineer

   Jun 2019 - May 2021
   Amazon · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Grew the payments platform team from 5 to 15 engineers.
5. Backend Engineer

   Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
   VMware · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Took payment success rates from 94.3% to 98.4%.
   • Moved 77% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Stanford University

   BS, Information Technology
   2011 - 2015