Leigh Maddock
Software Engineer at Block
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLeigh Maddock is a software engineer and seasoned Site Reliability leader with 11+ years building and operating large-scale Unix/Linux infrastructure across cloud and bare-metal environments. He has led SRE and infra teams at LinkedIn, Palo Alto Networks and Okta, and now contributes to Block, specializing in Terraform/Terragrunt/Atlantis-driven GCP and VMware deployments. Leigh designs resilient core services—DNS, Kerberos/LDAP, FreeIPA-based identity, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana—and has scaled alerting and configuration management solutions to hundreds of thousands of nodes. A pragmatic Python engineer, he builds REST-backed automation, CI/CD pipelines, and database-backed webscale tools using MySQL, MongoDB and Couchbase. He mentors teams on architecture, runbooks and operational excellence, and maintains open-source contributions on GitHub that underline his hands-on, production-first approach. Based in Melbourne, he pairs deep systems experience with a knack for automating repetitive ops into reliable, auditable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Studies, Industry Computers, Computer Studies, Industry Computers at Griffith UniversityCert IV Programming, programming, documentation, Cert IV Programming, programming, documentation at Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
Github Skills (6)
sys5
python3
pymongo2
configuration-management2
remote-execution1
golang1
Github contributions (5)
leighmaddock/ConiteDB
Jul 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
syspythonconfiguration-managementmanagement-toolpymongo
leighmaddock/Monitor-Agent
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 3 months
remote-executionpythonexecution
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