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Leo Baldwin, Principal Engineer, Amazon

Leo is a physicist, a futurist, and an inventor with a career in applied research and product development. He has designed a nuclear reactor core, a submarine life-support system, a rifle scope, a periscope, a ship-based helicopter landing system, lenses, sensors, machine vision systems, laser systems, and the optics for a utility-scale concentrated solar power system. Leo has investigated nuclear reactor accident scenarios, plastic waste recycling, surface plasmons, adaptive optics, and femtosecond-laser-created nano-structures. His government designs are in service in 26 countries. Leo’s commercial work has resulted in 49 US patents and can be found in glass plants and breweries, in silicon fabs and on electronic assembly systems, on iPads and iPhones, and in the Amazon Fire Phone. Leo is at Amazon's Seattle HQ as a Principal Engineer working on Corporate Projects.