David Leonard
Senior Principal Engineer at ABC Fitness
Grapevine, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Leonard is a Senior Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating secure, compliant SaaS platforms at scale, currently leading platform strategy and engineering for ABC Fitness supporting 20+ million members. He specializes in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (notably Terraform), Kubernetes, and building reproducible production stacks that meet PCI and HIPAA requirements. David has a proven track record of leading remote, multi-continent teams, integrating acquired codebases into standardized deployment flows, and enabling over 300 developers to ship reliably across Java, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and .NET Core ecosystems. He built managed DevOps offerings and a zero-trust SSO solution in prior roles, demonstrating both product-minded engineering and operational rigor. A Kubernetes and DevOps evangelist based in Grapevine, Texas, he combines pragmatic security stewardship with a knack for turning complex compliance needs into automated, auditable processes. Colleagues describe him as a builder who quietly reduces operational friction while scaling platforms and teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Cañon City High School
Github Skills (117)
hosting10
aggregator10
youtube10
reddit10
docker10
startpage10
privacy10
rss-reader9
monitoring9
rss9
golang9
gogs9
postgresql9
dashboard9
kubernetes-dashboard9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
furdn/furdn-status
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:621 pushes, 13 comments, 27 issues in 6 months
realdavidops/xcvb
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
a super simple start page.
Contributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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