Brad Leslie
Director, Platform Engineering
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Leslie is a platform engineering leader with 15+ years of experience scaling high-growth e-commerce systems and a decade of hands-on engineering depth, particularly in Ruby on Rails and Magento. Currently Director of Platform Engineering at Weedmaps, he has driven reliability for services handling 2B+ monthly requests, led developer-experience overhauls that cut CD failures by 60%, and maintained enterprise uptime targets. He combines strategic cross-functional partnership with a proven talent for mentoring managers and promoting technical leaders, having built leveling and promotion-ready cultures across large organizations. Brad’s background spans technical ownership—rewriting ad systems to boost API performance over 50% and creating local dev stacks to reduce infra costs—to product and program leadership at brands like Taco Bell and Amuse. An active contributor to the Ruby ecosystem (including work on the popular Faker gem), he blends pragmatic engineering with commerce-focused product sense to align platform investments to revenue and brand experience.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, College Prep/Honors, High School Diploma, College Prep/Honors at Hempfield High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Alabama
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
ruby10
testing10
faker7
javascript5
omniauth3
sign-in-with-apple2
frontend1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bpleslie/bpleslie.github.io
May 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
bpleslie/eventlogicusa.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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