Chris Leicester
Engineering Team Lead at Puppet
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolChris Leicester is an Engineering Team Lead based in Portland, Oregon with eight years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack enterprise software. At Puppet he combines feature planning, critical bug hotfixes, and mentorship to deliver predictable, high-quality releases while fostering an open-feedback engineering culture. He’s driven significant platform work—migrating apps to Kubernetes, auto-generating TypeScript API clients from OpenAPI specs, and removing CI/CD bottlenecks with repository caching—bringing both architectural thinking and pragmatic delivery. Comfortable across Java backend and React/TypeScript frontends, he also has roots in CI automation, QA frameworks, and cross-language solutions (Ruby, Clojure, C#). Known for translating product needs into spec’d, delegable work, he prioritizes giving engineers ownership of projects that excite them.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing, Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing, Minor in Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityMarketing, Marketing at Pasadena City CollegeMarketing, Marketing at Las Positas College
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Github Skills (31)
puppet10
inspect10
development-tools9
phonetics9
sketchup9
react8
bolt8
policies8
reduction8
react-components8
trains8
docker-image8
homebridge7
homekit7
puppet-enterprise7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-cd4pe_deployments
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
Puppet module for custom CD4PE deployment policies
Contributions:5 reviews, 25 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years
continuous-deploymentcd4pepuppetdeploymentpuppet-module
chrisleicester/cdpe_test
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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