Joe Leveque
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Chariot Defense
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Leveque is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping low-level firmware, backend tooling, and DevOps solutions across networking and defense systems. He has deep hands-on expertise in the SONiC ecosystem—contributing to core projects like sonic-buildimage, sonic-sairedis, and tooling that improve DHCP relay, platform daemons, and test reliability—plus experience hardening process control and startup behavior in widely used projects such as Supervisor. Joe blends embedded firmware work with Python-based backend and automation skills, migrating legacy systems to modern packages and improving test suites for robustness. His career spans startups to large teams (Microsoft, Anduril, Chariot Defense) and includes practical hardware experience from PCB-level arcade machine engineering, giving him an uncommon full-stack systems perspective from silicon to cloud.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoAssociate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies at College of DuPageAudio Design and Production, Audio Design and Production at Columbia College Chicago
English
Github Skills (41)
unit-testing10
docker10
sonic10
pytest10
back-end-development10
python10
scripting10
command-line-interface10
process-management10
bash10
test-framework10
packet10
supervisord10
networking10
dockers10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-platform-common
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Python packages which provide a common interface to platform-specific hardware peripherals in SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:232 reviews, 44 commits, 144 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the development of platform-specific hardware peripheral interfaces within the SONiC ecosystem. Their initial work involved creating Python packages for various hardware components like EEPROM, LED, PSU, and SFP, along with a setup file. Subsequent commits focused on making the code compatible with both Python 2 and 3, and refactoring to improve code quality and maintainability.
hardwareplatform-specificpythonsonic
sonic-net/sonic-platform-daemons
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
Platform module daemons for SONiC
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:165 reviews, 45 commits, 157 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the `sonic-platform-daemons` repository by developing and refactoring daemon-related functionalities using Python. They introduced a new daemon, `sonic-ledd`, for controlling front-panel LEDs. Their work included migrating from the `sonic-daemon-base` package to `sonic-py-common` and fixing tests related to these changes, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability. Furthermore, they updated setup files, adding `wheel` as a dependency, and performed code style alignment.
daemonssonic
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