Richard Leland
Principal Software Engineer at Quorum
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Leland is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience leading teams and architecting scalable web and cloud systems from startups to mission-driven organizations. He has a strong track record in improving delivery velocity and operational reliability—at Avaaz he cut engineering cycle time from weeks to days and slashed deployment and publishing latencies dramatically. Richard blends hands-on backend engineering (notably contributing a custom Django CloudFiles storage backend) with senior leadership roles that span product, DevOps, and developer relations. He helped build and scale SparkPost’s API, UI, and client libraries while establishing CI/CD, fraud mitigation, and community programs. Comfortable across Python, Node.js, AWS/GCP, and containerization, he’s as effective writing architecture and standards as he is debugging high-impact production issues. Based in Ilchester, Maryland, he pairs pragmatic engineering with measurable operational wins that directly support user-facing goals.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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29answers
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Github Skills (18)
restructuredtext10
back-end-development10
python10
sphinx10
django10
rs10
file-storage10
cloud-storage10
backend10
documentation10
makefile9
sparkpost6
ruby-on-rails6
nodejs6
iphone6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jschneier/django-storages
May 2009 - Mar 2014
https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 3 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard implemented a custom storage backend for Django using Mosso Cloud Files. This involved creating a `CloudFilesStorage` class, defining methods for file handling, and integrating the cloud storage service. The user also created an example project demonstrating the usage of the Mosso Cloud Files backend within a Django application. The user's commits primarily focused on integrating and configuring the storage service.
pythondjango-frameworkdjango-storagesdjangostorages
cgoldberg/multi-mechanize
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
Performance Test Framework in Python
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on improving the documentation of the multi-mechanize project. Their contributions included adding make files for building documentation using Sphinx, modifying the README instructions to reflect the use of make files, fixing typos, and adding titles to pages to improve automatic indexing. Additionally, the user updated the documentation to include the version number. These changes aimed to enhance the documentation's usability and accuracy.
pythontest-framework
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