Director Of Applied AI, Organizational Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Evan Leonard is a seasoned engineering leader who blends two decades of software delivery with organizational design to build healthy, productive teams and scalable developer platforms. He has led large Agile transformations—scaling practices across 500-engineer organizations and influencing SRE at Google (featured in O'Reilly's Site Reliability Engineering)—and has driven work-tracking and launch-governance systems now used widely across Google. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently directs Applied AI for Organizational Engineering at DeepMind after leading developer transformation efforts to reinvent how work gets done in the AI/Agent era. Evan combines hands-on product and platform building with coaching and organizational metrics, having partnered with VPs to measure org health for 2,000+ engineers and co-authored A Scrum Book. His background in HCI and conflict resolution informs a pragmatic, human-centered approach to change that balances technical rigor with regenerative culture work.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Conflict Resolution, Master's Degree, Conflict Resolution at University of Denver
BS, Logic & Computation, Human-Computer Interaction, & Communication Design, BS, Logic & Computation, Human-Computer Interaction, & Communication Design at Carnegie Mellon University
Contributions:6 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
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