Leif Blades
Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLeif Blades is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and a decade-plus track record building scalable web applications, internal tools, and cloud platforms. Currently at Salesforce, he specializes in large-scale cloud migrations, Spinnaker-driven CI/CD and observability stacks while previously shipping full-stack Angular/NodeJS apps and D3 visualizations for complex telemetry dashboards. He brings hands-on DevOps expertise—terraform, AWS/GCP automation, ELK/Kibana monitoring and PagerDuty integration—paired with a deep front-end background from rapid prototyping at Microsoft to production UIs. As a former small-business founder and longtime WordPress/LAMP developer, he blends product-minded pragmatism with enterprise engineering rigor. Based in Portugal, Leif combines data-driven dashboarding skills with operational automation to reduce toil and accelerate onboarding of services in cloud environments. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who moves quickly from prototype to production while keeping long-term maintainability in view.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Applied Mathematics, B.S Applied Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityMBA, MBA at California State University San MarcosM.B.A.+ 18 Masters credits Finance, M.B.A.+ 18 Masters credits Finance at Global Outreach Virtual Edu.
Github Skills (25)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion9
fact7
url-parser6
static-files5
css-grid5
nodejs4
wordpress4
protocols4
cdn3
css3
grids2
garden2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
1bladesforhire/guide-grid
Jan 2018 - Jun 2023
style guide built with css grid
Contributions:3 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
css-gridcss-grid-layoutgridscssstyle-guide
1bladesforhire/git-cheats
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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