Rain Leander
Senior Staff Developer Advocate
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolRain Leander is a Senior Staff Developer Advocate with 11+ years bridging open source communities and developer experience across cloud, database, and AI ecosystems. Currently at Qualcomm, Rain builds programs that connect cutting-edge semiconductor AI work to open-source projects and edge use cases, leveraging prior advocacy roles at Temporal, Cockroach Labs, Equinix, and a long history at Red Hat. A former software engineer and technical program manager, Rain combines hands-on contributions to projects like Tinkerbell, OpenStack, Fedora, RDO, and DjangoGirls with advocacy, documentation, and community protection. Trained in both choreography (MFA/BFA) and information technology, Rain brings an uncommon blend of creative storytelling, stage-grade public speaking, and process-oriented technical leadership. Known for maintaining practical open-source resources (including Equinix Metal standards and a Nonbinary Resources list), Rain seeks remote developer-relations adventures that scale community impact. Beyond code and talks, Rain’s background in performance informs an engaging, empathetic approach to developer education and collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Dance, BFA Dance at The University of Southern MississippiMIT Information Technology, MIT Information Technology at American InterContinental UniversityMFA Choreography, MFA Choreography at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
edtech10
cloud-native10
podman10
sql10
database10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
packet10
go10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
bare-metal9
kubernetes-csi9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rainleander/rainleander
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:266 commits, 203 PRs, 136 pushes in 2 years 7 months
cockroachlabs/developer-success
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 10 months
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