Leonardo M
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarLeonardo M is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms, currently leading engineering at Zendesk from Florida. He brings deep expertise in DevOps, AWS, Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitLab CI, and configuration management—having architected enterprise automation platforms and cloud adoption strategies at Element Fleet and Dataprev. At AWS he contributed to launching AWS Managed Services and owned components of its architecture, and on GitHub he improved reliability of the widely used puppetlabs-stdlib by adding robust unit tests and fixing subtle edge-case bugs. Known for bridging development and operations, he has repeatedly improved delivery velocity and software quality through standards, automation, and CI/CD tooling. Comfortable in both modern microservices and legacy environments, he blends hands-on coding, automation, and architectural leadership. An understated strength is his track record of shipping operationally resilient systems that scale across heterogeneous platforms and teams.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
puppeteer10
puppet10
testing10
python-modules9
yaml7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Puppet Labs Standard Library module
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Leonardo primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the `puppetlabs-stdlib` module by adding and modifying unit tests. They enhanced the `pick` function's error messages and updated its spec tests. Furthermore, the user addressed several bugs related to the `delete`, `delete_values`, and `delete_undef_values` functions, implementing comprehensive unit tests to ensure correct behavior and prevent regressions. They also added unit tests for the `loadyaml` and `delete_at` functions.
puppetsupported
lmello/opencost
Nov 2023 - May 2026
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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