Joshua Leaverton
Vice President Of Engineering at MarginEdge
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Leaverton is a cloud-focused engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing cost-conscious, provider-agnostic systems and leading teams through large-scale migrations and microservice refactors. As Vice President of Engineering at MarginEdge and a former AWS software development manager, he blends hands-on architecture with operational leadership across EC2 and solutions-builder domains. He emphasizes enterprise security, data protection, and CI/CD for microservices while leveraging ML-driven automation to improve reliability and reduce operational toil. Joshua contributes to open-source AWS tooling—maintaining backend and DevOps improvements for the widely used instance-scheduler-on-aws project—demonstrating a knack for keeping production solutions secure and deployable. Comfortable translating customer priorities (cost, schedule, availability) into tailored cloud migration plans, he excels at balancing pragmatic trade-offs with forward-looking technology adoption. Based in Herndon, VA, he pairs advanced academic training with a constant drive to scout new technologies that incrementally improve infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityThe University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (8)
aws10
devops10
python10
dynamodb9
aws-cdk9
amazon-dynamodb9
ssm8
cloudwatch7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws-solutions/instance-scheduler-on-aws
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
A cross-account and cross-region solution that allows customers to automatically start and stop EC2 and RDS Instances
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the backend functionality and infrastructure of the instance scheduler. This included updating dependencies, patching build configurations, and making modifications to core Python scripts such as those used to interact with the DynamoDB and SSM services. The user also updated the CDK build process and corrected cron strings. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the solution's operational efficiency and deployment process.
instancesecsec2rdscustomers
aws-solutions/aws-control-tower-customizations
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
control-towersecuretrustedaws-environmentcustomers
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