Leon Brocard
Principal Solutions Architect at Fastly
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorLeon Brocard is a Principal Solutions Architect based in London with 25 years of experience turning open source and edge technologies into practical, production-grade solutions. At Fastly since 2015 he blends systems-level thinking with a hacker’s curiosity—self-described as an "Orange HTTP Hacker"—to solve complex networking and performance challenges. His background spans leadership roles from CTO and Development Manager to Head of Backend, giving him deep expertise in backend architecture, delivery and team enablement. A long-standing CPAN contributor, he brings rare fluency in open source ecosystems alongside enterprise engineering practice. Colleagues know him for thinking outside the box and shipping creative, reliable solutions where protocol-level nuance matters.
25 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, German
Github Skills (188)
terraform10
cloud-files10
magento-backend10
graph10
binding10
parrot10
angularjs10
fastly10
plugin10
hashicorp9
varnish9
rackspace9
visual-studio-code-extension9
perl9
terraform-module9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fastly/uap-vcl
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
uap-vcl is a VCL module which parses a User-Agent string
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
agentstringuser-agent-stringuser-agentuap
acme/dackup
Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
Contributions:60 commits in 11 months
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