Steve Leonard
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Leonard is a Principal Software Engineer Manager based in Austin with 11 years of professional experience building cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams, currently shaping employee engagement products within Microsoft Viva. He blends hands-on engineering, cloud architecture, and people management—having progressed from application developer to principal architect and manager across Azure-focused roles and research-driven health and engagement initiatives. Steve has led end-to-end delivery for complex e-commerce and insurance platforms earlier in his career, giving him a strong grounding in reliability, scalability, and enterprise integration. Known for translating product needs into pragmatic technical strategies, he routinely coaches teams to balance usability, performance, and security. An interesting through-line in his career is moving between customer-facing product engineering and internal research-driven projects, which informs a pragmatic yet experimental approach to building better employee experiences.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computing, Bachelor of Science - BS Computing at Canterbury Christ Church University
Github Skills (97)
azure-aks10
azure10
azure-container-registry10
azure-kubernetes-service10
secrets9
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
dotnet8
azure-devops8
azure-pipelines8
dotnet-core8
facebook8
devops7
kubernetes7
analytics7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AzureDemos/KubernetesLab
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
This lab is designed to demonstrate how to build a DotNet Core application and deploy it into Kubernetes on Azure (AKS). The lab leverages native Kubernetes components such as config maps and secrets, along with Azure based technologies such as Azure DevOps, Azure Container Registry, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
Contributions:164 commits, 135 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
azure-containerazure-devopskubernetes-nativesecretsazure
s-leonard/AzureAPIM
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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