Leon Roy
Senior Engineering Manager at Dedrone by Axon
London, England, United States
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Top SchoolLeon Roy is a pragmatic, hands-on engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling cloud-native platforms, APIs, and SaaS products from startup to enterprise usage. He combines founder-level product instincts—having launched and raised seed for conferencing and lead-generation SaaS—with deep systems experience in Java, Spring, AWS serverless, and media/streaming integrations. At Grabyo he modernized core monoliths, led zero-downtime OS/container upgrades, and architected multi-destination livestreaming and usage-tracking pipelines; more recently he’s moved into senior engineering management and integrations leadership at Dedrone by Axon. Leon also contributes to open-source XMPP tooling (Openfire monitoring/archiving), reflecting a willingness to dig into niche protocols and legacy integrations that many leaders avoid. Based in London, he pairs technical execution with hiring, process and product strategy to turn complex requirements into reliable, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng (Hons) Computing, B.Eng (Hons) Computing at Imperial College LondonQueen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
Urdu, English
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Github Skills (19)
xserver10
xmpp10
archiving10
java10
javas10
openfire10
mysql9
mysql-database9
mysql-db9
sql9
sql-database9
hibernate6
twilio6
twilio-api6
jdbc6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
igniterealtime/Openfire
Oct 2012 - Jul 2015
An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Leon contributed to the monitoring plugin for the Openfire XMPP server. Their work included integrating the Open Archive plugin for XEP-0136 support, which enables archiving of chat messages. Further contributions focused on database schema updates for message archiving, fixing a typo in an index name, and addressing issues related to the display of archived messages. They also made changes to the plugin's changelog and versioning.
openfirexmpp-serverxmpplicensedapache-license
Globility/openlink-java
Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 56 commits, 37 pushes in 11 months
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