Mark Leonard
Senior Staff Software Engineer at ForgeRock (Now Ping Identity)
Westbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Leonard is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nearly three decades in software and 14 years specialising in Java, currently shaping identity and access solutions at Ping Identity (formerly ForgeRock). He brings deep experience building RESTful microservices with Spring Boot and a strong DevOps toolbelt—Docker, Jenkins, Helm/Kubernetes, Maven and CI workflows—alongside a history of test-driven and BDD approaches. Comfortable both as a hands-on individual contributor and an Agile team player, he has mentored offshore teams and contributed work to open initiatives such as ONAP. His background spans C/C++ and telecoms real-time systems to modern cloud-native stacks, reflecting a rare continuity across legacy and contemporary platforms. Based in Westbury, England, he balances engineering with a strategic eye for quality and a chess player's analytical mindset. He is actively expanding his language and framework repertoire while delivering production-grade systems at scale.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of LondonA levels, A levels at Tomlinscote School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
gerrit8
admin7
hashmap6
caching6
junit6
ant6
tcl6
abstract-syntax-tree6
closures6
groovy6
java6
oom5
scraper1
javascript1
federation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
markjonleonard/fide-ratings-scraper
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
FIDE (International Chess Federation) ratings pages scraper built with NodeJS
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
markjonleonard/trowbridgechess
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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