Andrew Leonard
Manager, Software Engineering at Allen Institute for Cell Science
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Leonard is a seasoned software engineering manager in Seattle with 15 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for research and high-traffic web services. Currently leading Software Engineering at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, he moved up from DevOps to management after architecting nearly-100% containerized production environments and deploying the institute’s first public cloud systems. He blends deep hands-on skills (Ansible, Terraform, Docker, AWS/GCP, database clustering) with a proven track record of scaling systems, owning CI/CD, monitoring and automation, and mentoring small operations teams. Past roles at Dell EMC, Whitepages and several research institutions show a history of solving complex integration and automation challenges across Unix, Windows and virtualization stacks. Collected experience across scientific and commercial settings gives him a practical sense for reproducible, auditable infrastructure that supports both research rigor and production reliability.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at Cornell University
Github Skills (65)
test-kitchen10
testing10
google-compute-engine10
driver10
ruby9
microscopy9
command-line-tool9
filesystem9
aws9
autojump8
ansible8
python8
metadata8
imageio8
mongodb8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
anl/bashrcd-public
Jan 2015 - Jun 2025
Contributions:33 pushes in 10 years 6 months
anl/osx-setup
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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