Leonid Y
Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Y is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer with a decade of experience helping developers adopt cloud-native observability and reliability practices. Based in the Greater Seattle Area and currently at Google, he combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills with a knack for translating SRE concepts into practical developer-facing guidance. His open-source work on GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-ops-sandbox includes backend improvements, CI/CD configuration, and an SRE recipe focused on data freshness—demonstrating attention to operational rigor and user-centered tooling. Leonid’s background spans rigorous technical education in Israel and a long-standing focus on production readiness and API design consistency. He excels at bridging engineering and education: turning complex cloud operations patterns into reproducible, teachable artifacts that teams can adopt quickly. Quietly detail-oriented, he often surfaces non-obvious reliability improvements (like warmup endpoints and data-freshness checks) that materially reduce incidents in production.
10 years of coding experience
Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyM.Sc., M.Sc. at Ha'Universita Ha'PetuhaB.Sc., B.Sc. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Russian, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (22)
cloud-computing10
python10
apidoc10
gcp10
api10
cloud-services10
sre9
appengine9
google-cloud8
operation8
go3
sample-rate3
kubernetes-pods3
sample-data3
docker3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-ops-sandbox
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Cloud Operations Sandbox is an open source collection of tools that helps practitioners to learn O11y and R9y practices from Google and apply them using Cloud Operations suite of tools.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 99 reviews, 79 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Leonid primarily contributed to the backend of the rating service, implementing custom API methods and adding a warmup endpoint for App Engine. They also introduced and developed an SRE recipe for the rating service, specifically focusing on data freshness. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the codebase to align with Google Cloud API design guidelines and configured related CI/CD pipelines using the GCP tools.
gcpstackdriver-logsstackdriver-sandboxstackdriver-tracegoogle-cloud
minherz/copyright-inserter
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
VSCode extension that inserts a copyright header into editing file
Contributions:10 reviews, 37 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 10 months
headervscodevscode-extensionvisual-studio-code-extensioncopyright
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