Alex Leong

San Francisco Bay Area United States

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Alex Leong is an aspiring project manager and technologist with 12 years of diverse experience blending hands-on engineering, operations, and community leadership in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has contributed backend and systems work to notable open-source projects like Linkerd and Twitter's Finatra/Finagle—adding thrift support, routing improvements, and observability features—demonstrating comfort with distributed systems and Rust/Scala ecosystems. His background includes autonomous vehicle training at Cruise, solar consulting, and event coordination, giving him a practical, user-focused perspective on deploying technology in the real world. A Year Up-trained project coordinator and active Toastmasters president, he pairs polished communication and public-speaking skills with project scoping and team mentorship. Alex is driven by making technology accessible and sustainable—whether helping homes become grid providers via solar or improving developer tooling to reduce operational stress. He brings a unique mix of field experience, open-source pedigree, and a community-centered mindset to roles that require technical depth and people-first project leadership.

12 years of coding experience

Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Building Sciences/Technology | Solar Energy Technology | Communication Studies, 3.6 GPA, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Building Sciences/Technology | Solar Energy Technology | Communication Studies, 3.6 GPA at Skyline College

Computer Science, Computer Science at Foothill College

chinese, cantonese

Github Skills (31)

service-mesh10

kubernetes10

docker10

apidoc10

testing10

distributed-tracing10

http10

finagle10

dockers10

java10

scala10

javas10

rpc10

api10

opencensus10

Programming languages (10)

TypeScriptDockerfileJavaShellRustScalaMakefileJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

linkerd/linkerd

Jan 2016 - Mar 2020

Old repo for Linkerd 1.x. See the linkerd2 repo for Linkerd 2.x.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:32 releases, 14 reviews, 509 commits in 4 years 2 months

Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Linkerd 1.x project by adding support for thrift e2e tests, including the creation of a new test file. Furthermore, they introduced a new feature by adding the `thriftMethodInDst` option for the thrift protocol and implementing tests. The user also contributed to build system by modifying the project files to support newly implemented feature.

linkerdcloud-nativeservice-meshservice-discovery

linkerd/linkerd-examples

May 2016 - May 2018

Examples of how to configure and run linkerd

Role in this project:

Backend & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years

Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the examples demonstrating how to configure and run linkerd. They implemented a Java-based header classifier plugin, added getting-started guides for local, Docker, and Kubernetes deployments, and added a k8s daemonset example. Furthermore, the user updated the Linkerd version and added a failure rate configuration to the world service.

linkerdkubernetesdockerservice-discoverymesos

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