Leo Ackerman
Senior Staff Engineer at Personio
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLeo Ackerman is a Senior Staff Engineer with a decade of experience driving reliability, developer productivity, and reproducible software delivery across eCommerce, fintech, travel and defense sectors. He combines hands-on engineering—from Kubernetes controllers and SRE practices to bootstrapping language monorepos—with technical leadership roles that span developer enablement, CI/CD and incident culture change. Known for "refactor mercilessly" and "automate your way out of job" mantras, he focuses on making software development predictable by codifying workflows, libraries and internal frameworks. His recent work spans deployment platforms, testing solutions and Backstage-driven developer ergonomics, and he has led migrations to cloud and the creation of CLIs to streamline SRE tasks. Colleagues value his rapid learning, client-facing coaching and habit of turning operational pain points into repeatable automation. Based in the UK, he pairs formal CS training with managerial experience and a track record of shipping durable infrastructure at scale.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Development, New Manager Development, Executive Development, New Manager Development at Stellenbosch UniversityHigh School, High School at St Benedicts CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science (Honours), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science (Honours) at University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
56reputation
3kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (45)
api10
github-api10
github-api-v39
golang9
go9
github8
docker-machine7
gitlab6
hydrogen6
mongodb6
k8s6
edit6
nodejs6
meteor6
tiddlywiki6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lackerman/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
lackerman/kubernetes-ansible
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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