David Leigh
Director Of Operations
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Leigh is a seasoned technology leader with 30 years of IT experience, most recently serving as Director of Operations at Statistics Without Borders after a long career culminating as a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He specializes in strengthening teams and resilient, incident-ready systems—bringing a decade of focused work on reliability, incident management, and recovery for complex, critical infrastructure. Based in Chapel Hill, he pairs hands-on engineering and SRE experience with management and strategic advising for nonprofits and civic initiatives, especially around data and governance transparency. David is committed to strengthening democratic institutions and civic engagement through technology, offering volunteer, part-time, or consulting support to organizations that need robust tech infrastructure and operational readiness. An experienced cook and breadmaker, he uniquely blends community-focused food initiatives with technical skills to help address social bonds and food security as part of resilient communities.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (20)
markdown9
vue9
vite8
windicss7
pandas7
python7
vueuse7
data-structures6
data-analysis6
waffle6
data-structure6
data-science6
x-callback-url5
obsidian3
applescript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dlleigh/max31855
Mar 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
raspberry-pijunctionthermocoupleraspberrycold
dlleigh/temp-logger
Feb 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 5 months
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