David Leadbeater
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarDavid Leadbeater is a seasoned SRE and backend engineer with 24 years of experience building, securing, monitoring and scaling large Linux-based systems from Melbourne. He combines practical observability and security expertise with hands-on coding in Go and Perl, and a track record of improving test suites and tooling for major open-source projects like Prometheus. David also contributes full‑stack improvements to community projects such as MetaCPAN and maintains long-standing involvement in the Irssi IRC ecosystem, reflecting deep protocol and tooling knowledge. Notable for pragmatic fixes that reduce operational pain—better tests, clearer promtool output, and browser-friendly search enhancements—he brings a quietly impactful, detail-oriented approach to reliability engineering.
24 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
timeseries-database10
scripting10
testing10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
alertview10
alerts10
perl10
cpan10
go10
prometheus10
metacpan10
irssi10
irc10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
irssi/scripts.irssi.org
Jun 2014 - Mar 2019
Script Repository for Irssi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 51 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to maintaining and updating scripts within the Irssi script repository. They made several updates to existing scripts, fixing bugs and improving functionality. Their work included modifying existing scripts like `title.pl` and `usercount.pl`, and adding new ones such as `unicode.pl`. Furthermore, the user updated the URLs in multiple scripts.
irssi
prometheus/prometheus
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 19 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the Prometheus project. Their contributions include improving unit tests for alert rules, addressing test failures, and optimizing the testing process. They also worked on ensuring timestamp comparisons used wall clock time and added functionality to the template functions. Additionally, the user made various improvements to the `promtool` utility, including more readable output and better test management.
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasealertingdatabase
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