Phaedrus Leeds
Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhaedrus Leeds is an engineering specialist with 11 years of experience building robust backend systems for embedded, desktop, and satellite platforms, currently developing software for small satellites at The Aerospace Corporation. He is a committed FOSS advocate and active contributor to high-profile projects such as Flatpak, ostree, GNOME/glib, and xdg-desktop-portal, where his work focuses on stability, error handling, and developer tooling. His background spans embedded bootloader and ZFS fixes in U-Boot to improving Flatpak builder behavior and D-Bus interactions, reflecting deep systems-level expertise across Linux and aarch64 architectures. Phaedrus blends hands-on bug fixing and test improvements with advocacy for maintainable code and engineering process improvements. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a practical, community-oriented approach that surfaces in both product work and open-source stewardship. A less obvious strength is his knack for improving developer ergonomics (clearer help messages, debug output, and docs) which amplifies long-term project health.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mountain Brook High SchoolBS Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, BS Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at The University of Alabama
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Github Skills (29)
git10
testing10
linux10
c1110
dbus10
glib10
c1710
ostree10
zfs10
sys10
arm10
embedded10
documentation10
operating-system10
package-management9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Desktop integration portal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 43 reviews, 65 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Phaedrus primarily contributed to the `xdg-desktop-portal` project, which is focused on desktop integration. Their contributions included fixing whitespace and copy-pasta issues, removing duplicate includes and adding static designations. They also addressed errors related to D-Bus calls by implementing `g_dbus_error_strip_remote_error()`, and fixed method calls, and validated app IDs consistently, improving the stability and error handling of the project. Furthermore, they reworked the handling of empty app IDs.
desktop-integrationflatpaklinuxlinux-desktopsandboxing
flatpak/flatpak
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 164 reviews, 883 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Phaedrus's commits primarily revolve around enhancing the Flatpak builder tool. They have implemented features to print commands before execution, corrected memory leaks, and enabled the use of git sources via paths rather than URLs. Additionally, the user fixed several bugs, improved debug messages for launching subprocesses, and corrected documentation. The main focus appears to be improving the functionality and stability of the Flatpak builder tool.
linux
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