Summary
Leon Kogan is a Director of Engineering with over 15 years of hands-on experience leading global SRE, DevOps, and cloud operations teams to improve uptime, stability, and scalability across hybrid and public cloud environments. He has led large migrations and re-engineering efforts—most notably driving a multi-year transition of 150+ product offerings to AWS using IaC practices with Ansible and Terraform, and modernizing infrastructure with Kubernetes. Comfortable at the intersection of operations and R&D, Leon embeds real-time service constraints into product design and mentors teams to adopt Agile and SRE methodologies. Based in California, he combines deep expertise in server architecture, network security, and datacenter operations with a pragmatic focus on measurable operational resiliency. An understated strength is his ability to translate vendor and platform complexity into repeatable, automated runbooks that scale across global datacenters.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at San José State University