Marco Leogrande
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarco Leogrande is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 18 years of experience building distributed systems, networking platforms, compilers and developer tooling across Google, Meta (Pyre), VMware and PLUMgrid. He currently leads the Cloud NAT team at Google Cloud, combining hands-on systems design with technical leadership and people management across engineers from entry level to senior. Marco has deep expertise in state distribution, RPCs, observability and automation—having single-handedly designed CI/CD and testing infrastructures and contributed to high-performance projects like Pyre's test automation. He brings a pragmatic, meritocratic approach to collaboration and community dynamics, with a long-standing interest in open source "bazaar" models and security practices. Comfortable bridging kernel-level work (eBPF tracing) to cloud-scale services, he favors direct communication and responsibility-driven teams that iterate quickly.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Technology, 110/110 with honors, Master’s Degree, Information Technology, 110/110 with honors at Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di MilanoASP Diploma, Innovation, ASP Diploma, Innovation at Alta Scuola PolitecnicaBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, 110/110 with honors, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, 110/110 with honors at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
static-analysis9
git9
git-hooks9
dropbox9
syntax-highlighting9
type-checking8
type-check8
cin7
continuous-integration7
version-control6
vi6
git-stash6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/pyre-check
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Performant type-checking for python.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 1 branch in 8 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on maintaining and improving the test suite for the `pyre-check` project. They fixed Python 3.5 compatibility issues within existing tests by updating syntax and replacing deprecated methods. The user also addressed test failures related to missing dependencies like `watchman` and `hg`, modifying test configurations and skipping tests based on environment.
pythontype-checkingtypecheckertype-checkstatic-analysis
dark/gentoo
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:28 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 11 months
ebuildgentooebuild-repository
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