Leon Wright
DevOps Engineer Lead at Pet Circle
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Wright is a DevOps engineering leader based in Perth with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering reliable infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD at scale. Currently leading DevOps at Pet Circle, he has progressed through senior and lead roles building resilient systems and mentoring distributed teams. Leon is an active open-source contributor and the infrastructure/indexing lead for KSP-CKAN, the widely used Kerbal Space Program mod manager, where he drives testing, automation and cross-border collaboration for a largely non-developer user base. His background spans system administration, software development and embedded hardware interests, giving him a pragmatic, full-stack view of operations and tooling. Known for improving test coverage and automating complex build pipelines, he combines people-first leadership with a passion for open source and practical engineering.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate III Education / IT Support, Certificate III Education / IT Support at Box Hill Institute
English
Github Skills (20)
testing10
bash10
metadata10
cicd10
ckan10
automation10
automations10
k10
dotnet9
net9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
asp-net9
json8
github-ci7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
KSP-CKAN/NetKAN
Dec 2014 - Jun 2019
Metadata files used by the NetKAN/CKAN indexer for KSP
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 146 commits, 203 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily focused on automating the build and testing processes for the NetKAN repository, a metadata indexer for the KSP game. Their contributions included modifying the `build.sh` script to handle version overrides, manage dependencies, and integrate testing steps. They also worked on incorporating CI/CD aspects, like handling commit hashes and testing changes, ensuring the continuous integration of metadata updates. Additionally, they addressed issues related to file paths and metadata validation within the build process.
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KSP-CKAN/CKAN
Oct 2014 - Nov 2022
The Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:141 reviews, 140 commits, 79 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage for the project. They added and modified tests, particularly related to handling corrupt data and edge cases, and refactored existing tests for improved clarity. Their contributions also included addressing indentation issues and ensuring the project's solution file was not accidentally updated. Furthermore, they created a script to test the solution file and implemented a Dockerfile for the NetKAN inflator.
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