Leon Davis
Founder at LevelUp
Enfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Davis is a founder and hands-on software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-first startups and enterprise systems from his base in Enfield. He founded LevelUp to create environments where engineers can focus on craft and real user outcomes, blending practical delivery coaching with thought leadership. His background mixes backend engineering (Java, Ruby) and agile leadership—introducing Scrum, continuous deployment, and developer training at organisations like BSkyB, NTT DATA UK and AOL. Leon also contributes to open-source scientific tooling, notably improving COMET integration in the OpenMS project, reflecting an attention to interoperability and edge-case correctness. Known for pairing technical depth with people-focused change, he thrives on turning messy delivery problems into repeatable, user-centered practices.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bishop Stopford's SchoolMEng 1st Class, Software Engineering, MEng 1st Class, Software Engineering at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
mass-spectrometry10
openms10
cprogramming-language10
proteins10
standard-library9
c-libraries9
cpp-library9
algorithms8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMS/OpenMS
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
The codebase of the OpenMS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily worked on the `COMETAdapter` within the OpenMS project, modifying its codebase to address specific issues related to converting PepXML files to idXML format. Their work included code modifications to the `COMETAdapter.cpp` file, indicating efforts to resolve errors and integrate the Comet search engine. Additionally, the user made changes to the enzyme-related components, including `Enzyme.cpp`, `EnzymesDB.cpp`, `Enzyme.h`, and `EnzymesDB.h`, to incorporate COMET-specific identifiers and functionality.
windowsanalysesms-datalinuxc-plus-plus
FidelityInternational/cic
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:48 PRs, 232 pushes, 46 branches in 4 months
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