Steve Leon
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Leon is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems, currently shaping Azure Core architecture at Microsoft. He led the EKS Control Plane team at AWS, owning cluster lifecycle orchestration across regions, and has deep open-source credentials contributing to Kubernetes, Rook (notably adding a volume provisioner and Kubernetes compatibility updates), OpenStack and related projects. Comfortable at the intersection of backend, DevOps and cloud-native storage, he consistently drives process and architectural improvements that scale across large platforms. A quick learner and pragmatic problem-solver, Steve pairs hands-on systems development with community-facing work such as releases, documentation and SIG participation, reflecting a rare combination of production leadership and open-source stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Systems Engineering at Carleton University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
ceph10
storage10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
docker8
dockers8
etcd7
api-design7
apim7
api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rook/rook
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:49 commits, 65 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the storage orchestration for Kubernetes project by adding lint checks for syntax and style, specifically within the build files and go packages. They updated dependencies to support Kubernetes 1.6 and made modifications to the `mon.go`, `mon_test.go`, `rgw.go`, `cluster.go`, and other core files. Furthermore, the user added a volume provisioner to Rook and incorporated Kubernetes API changes for compatibility with version 1.8.
etcddata-protectionorchestrationdockerceph
kokhang/rook
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 307 pushes, 90 branches in 11 months
open-clouddistributed-storagekubernetesstoragecloud-native
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