Leon Sandøy
Founding Engineer at ion8
Vestby, Viken, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Sandøy is a founding engineer and technology leader with a decade of hands-on experience building developer-centric platforms, tooling, and AI-first systems from Norway. Currently CTO at ion8 and founding engineer at Journalia, he blends strategic leadership with frequent hands-on coding across TypeScript, Python and Go to ship scalable, secure products in medtech and beyond. He cofounded Python Discord and is a significant contributor to its well-known community bot projects, applying pragmatic backend engineering, CI/CD, and developer experience improvements to large volunteer ecosystems. Leon also runs Hideous Monster to advise engineering teams on culture, process and architecture, uniquely pairing consultancy with active coding. Colleagues describe him as someone who deliberately designs roles to give engineers problems to solve, not just solutions to implement — and he builds environments where creativity and psychological safety matter as much as technical excellence.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taught
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (14)
discord-py10
api-rest10
bots10
rest-api10
api10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
discord-js10
restful-api10
discord-bot10
googlebot10
discord8
git6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
python-discord/sir-lancebot
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
A Discord bot started as a community project for Hacktoberfest 2018, later evolved to an introductory project for aspiring new developers starting out with open source development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 57 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Discord bot, focusing on improvements and new features. They worked on refactoring code, improving docstrings, and fixing the bot's cog loading behavior. The user also implemented a new "Season" feature, enabling dynamic changes in the bot's behavior based on dates. They also made various updates and fixes across multiple files related to Pride Season.
pythondiscordbotdiscord-botintroductory
python-discord/bot
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
The community bot for the Python Discord community
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 204 commits, 130 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily contributed to the implementation of a new "tags" feature, which involved creating, retrieving, and deleting tags through an API. This included significant effort on the back-end logic to interact with the API, code refactoring, and testing to verify functionality. The user also introduced a cooldown system to manage the use of commands within the system and added some improvements to command handling.
python310python311pythondiscord-pythondiscord
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