Sean Leonard
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Leonard is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable data and cloud services from Seattle. He contributes to Azure SQL Database projects and is a key driver of authentication, authorization, and GraphQL functionality for the open-source Data API Builder, while also maintaining SQL machine learning utilities in the sqlmlutils repo. Sean blends production-grade engineering with open-source stewardship, shipping developer-facing features that simplify data access and security for cloud-native applications. A USC computer science graduate, he brings deep SQL and security focus to API and tooling projects—often working at the cross-section of database systems and developer experience. Notably, his public-facing work helps bridge enterprise Azure services and community-driven tools, making complex DB/ML workflows more accessible.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaLoyola High School
Github Skills (131)
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microsoft-sql9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/data-api-builder
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Data API builder provides modern REST and GraphQL endpoints to your Azure Databases and on-prem stores.
Contributions:1641 reviews, 165 PRs, 489 pushes in 1 year 11 months
apiazuredatabasegraphqlmicrosoft
MicrosoftDocs/data-api-builder-docs
Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
Open source documentation of data-api-builder
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 year 3 months
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