I'm Leah R. Tucker

I am a steadfast problem-solver, driven by relentless curiosity and a deep-seated joy in overcoming complex technical puzzles.

About Me

Tech puzzles? They're my kind of fun.

With a relentless curiosity for technical challenges guiding my career, my professional trajectory has been anything but linear. As someone whose prime directive is finding new technical puzzles, I’ve guided product roadmaps and API governance programs as a Principal Technical Product Manager at Sabre, where I led enterprise-wide portal migrations and enabled CI/CD pipelines for 2,500+ API products for Sabre Dev Studio. As Staff Writer at Stripe, I led DevEx onboarding strategies that boosted engagement more than 25% by developing Stripe’s official getting started guides, including Get started and Quickstart.

Currently, I’m focused on scaling open source engagement strategies, aligning cross-functional teams to elevate user experiences for Amazon EKS. In my “free time,” I’m co-founding Blinkt AI, a cognitive search platform that embeds deep learning transformer models for real-time, domain-specific insights.

I’m open to chatting with anyone about developer advocacy, emerging tech, and the future of AI-driven experiences.

Tech Stack

Programming & Frameworks

Python (FastAPI, Flask)
JavaScript (Vanilla JS, Node.js)
Additional Languages: Go, Java, Ruby, C# .NET, PHP

AI & Data Processing

NLP & Transformer Models (LLMs for text embedding & causal reasoning)
Hybrid Retrieval & RAG Pipelines (LLM-based summarization, Pinecone vector DB)
Real-Time Data Streaming (Websockets, rate limiting, credit management)

Infrastructure & DevOps

AWS (Amazon EKS, Managed Airflow)
Containerization & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
CI/CD & API Governance (OpenAPI specs, automated workflows, role-based access)

Databases & Backend Services

Relational & In-Memory DBs (PostgreSQL, Redis)
Microservices & Async Operations (multithreading, multicore CPU processing)
Payment & Monetization (Stripe integration, per-token usage analytics)

Professional Highlights

Stripe

Architected, developed, and led user testing for developer Quickstarts in Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, Java, C# .NET, and PHP, leading to a 25% increase in API endpoint traffic.

AWS

Led developer experience for Amazon EKS, pioneering community workshops and multilingual tutorials, driving a 250% increase in social media engagement for AWS open source initiatives.

Sabre

Led an enterprise-wide API developer portal and infrastructure migration from concept to launch for 2,500+ API products, delivering role-based access control, live-call functionality with OpenAPI (Swagger), automated test suites, and customized user experiences.

Avis Budget Group (ABG)

Led the ground-up API design for ABG’s $1.25 billion initiative by creating reusable data models that improved consistency and scalability, resulting in a 75% reduction in deployment time.