Leon Richter is a DevOps Engineer with eight years' experience building secure, Linux-based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, currently applying his skills at ELAC SONAR in Schleswig-Holstein. He specializes in hydroacoustic systems and Python, with a knack for integrating containerization into constrained or safety-critical environments. Leon combines operational rigor with customer-focused solution design, having bridged NetOps and DevOps workflows—evident from his contributions to a Prometheus exporter that extended RouterOS v7 support and hardened data collection. His background includes full-stack work for a sustainability-focused startup and hands-on systems engineering as a Werkstudent, giving him a pragmatic, product-oriented perspective. An active open-source contributor, he prioritizes robustness and graceful failure modes in tooling. Continuously learning and community-minded, he enjoys solving network-adjacent problems after hours.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor's degree, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 13 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Prometheus exporter for Mikrotik RouterOS devices. Their work involved adapting the exporter to support RouterOS v7, adding new data sources for connections and public IP addresses, and refining existing components such as the health collector and wireless data fetching. They also improved the code's robustness by addressing potential errors and preventing crashes by using default values.
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