Leandro Barros
Back-end Developer at balena
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLeandro Barros is a seasoned back-end developer with 20 years of experience building embedded and cloud-connected systems from firmware to distributed services. Currently at balena, he blends DevOps and embedded expertise—recently maintaining and upgrading the Yocto-based balenaOS engine—to ensure robust containerized deployments on edge devices. Previously at SAP he designed metering and rate-limiting services in Go and implemented enterprise back-end features, while earlier work spans high-performance C++, OpenGL, Open Scene Graph and image-processing systems. He pairs academic rigor (MSc in Applied Computing) and teaching experience with hands-on firmware and storage-device development, making him comfortable across low-level and server-side stacks. Known for improving system reliability through careful testing and health-check work, he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and observability to complex platforms. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he often combines graphics-era tooling and modern cloud practices in inventive ways that bridge hardware and software.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at UnisinosTechnician, Electronics, Technician, Electronics at Fundação Escola Técnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha
Github Skills (13)
balena10
embedded10
docker10
sys10
containerization10
dockers10
yocto10
bash9
systemd9
go8
testing8
cicd7
yaml7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
balena-os/meta-balena
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
A collection of Yocto layers used to build balenaOS images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Embedded Systems Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 35 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Leandro primarily focused on updating and maintaining the balena-engine within the Yocto-based balenaOS, demonstrating a strong grasp of containerization and embedded system configuration. They updated the engine versions, ensuring the system used the latest features and bug fixes. The user also improved the robustness of the system through enhanced health checks and HUP (Host Update) testing.
meta-resinbalenaresinbalenaosdocker
lmbarros/Diluculum
Jun 2006 - May 2013
Contributions:111 commits in 6 years 11 months
badluastoredcppdata-access
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