Leon Löchner
Computer Scientist
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarLeon Löchner is a computer scientist based in Berlin with six years of hands-on experience building cloud-native networking and backend systems. He has a strong practical focus on multicloud connectivity and DevOps, demonstrated by substantive contributions to Kilo—a WireGuard-based network overlay for Kubernetes—where he implemented user-space WireGuard integration via the Rust boringtun library, fixed iptables edge cases, and added e2e tests and documentation generation. Comfortable across backend engineering and infrastructure, Leon solves tricky production networking problems like supporting nodes without private IPs. He blends development and operational concerns, shipping improvements that make open-source networking tooling more reliable and easier to adopt. Colleagues can expect pragmatic engineers who bridge code, docs, and test automation to drive durable platform improvements.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
vpn10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
wireguard10
iptables9
testing8
cicd8
documentation7
cni7
rust7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
squat/kilo
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Kilo is a multi-cloud network overlay built on WireGuard and designed for Kubernetes (k8s + wg = kg)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 162 reviews, 71 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Leon's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Kilo project, a multi-cloud network overlay. They implemented features related to user-space WireGuard, integrating the Rust-based "boringtun" library. Furthermore, they addressed bugs related to iptables rules and allowed nodes to function without private IPs. Additionally, the user made modifications to the documentation, improved the build process by adding documentation generation, and added e2e tests.
kilomulti-clusteroverlay-networkvpnnetworking
kilo-io/adjacency
May 2020 - May 2022
Create an adjacency matrix for an SRV record to check the latencies between nodes in a network
Contributions:5 reviews, 48 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 1 month
nodessrvsrv-recordmatrixadjacency
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