Leon Smith
Head Of Platform Engineering
Ribble Valley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLeon Smith is a Head of Platform Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient cloud platforms, currently leading platform strategy and SRE at Midnite. He progressed from web and backend development through DevOps and SRE leadership roles, combining startup-founder pragmatism with enterprise-grade reliability practices. Leon has repeatedly stepped into director-level and lead engineering roles, driving observability, incident response and platform automation across fast-moving adtech and ecommerce teams. Notably, he co-founded a successful payments extension business that achieved top rankings on Magento Connect and shipped integrations via Mastercard Labs, reflecting a strong product-first engineering mindset. Based in the Ribble Valley, he blends technical depth with people leadership to scale platforms and developer experience in growth-stage companies.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Business, DDD, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Business, DDD at Runshaw College
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Github Skills (119)
python10
terraform10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
typeid10
data-pipelines10
data-science10
graph10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
giantmade/giant-blackbox
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
A Github action to run black-box tests on a given hostname.
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 8 months
hostname
leonsmith/pydig
Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
Python wrapper library for the 'dig' command line tool
Contributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
command-line-toolpython
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