Leon Blakey
Open Source Developer at Self-Employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLeon Blakey is an experienced Open Source Developer and DevOps-savvy Systems Engineer with 15 years building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and tooling across hybrid cloud environments. Based in Seattle, he has blended hands-on systems administration with software development—authoring the Java IRC library PircBotX and contributing to multiple open source projects while working in roles from systems admin to SDE at AWS. His toolkit spans Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, PHP, Bash, and PowerShell, and he has practical experience with Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure, Ansible, VMware and both MySQL/MSSQL. Leon has a strong track record automating complex deployments and CI pipelines, rebuilding datacenter infrastructure, and shipping accessibility-focused software like a Java Braille translation system. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and cross-platform build expertise, and his long-running open source projects show a preference for durable, reusable developer tooling.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Computer Networking and Security, Advanced Computer Networking and Security at Eastside Technical CenterLafayette High SchoolComputer Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Computer Science at University of Louisville
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Github Skills (146)
testng10
firefox-addon10
maven10
eclipse10
weechat10
irc-bot10
reddit10
irc-server10
java10
dub10
irc-protocol10
chrome-extension10
sasl10
swt10
irc10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
TheLQ/xanarc
Oct 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
TheLQ/PircBotX
Aug 2010 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2337 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 11 years 9 months
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