Jesse Leonard

  I’m a Backend Software Engineer that has really enjoyed working for fast paced start ups in my career. I’m very motivated by learning and implementing new technologies that save my companies time and money. I strive to be the best engineer I can be and am working towards being certified as an AWS Solutions Architect.
Education
2018: University of Oregon, Bachelors of Science.
Computer and Information Sciences
Work Experience
4 Years.
IPTA Solutions
Austin, Tx.
Jun. 2023 - Present
I work at a Veteran Owned Small Business that fulfills contracts for the Department of Defense.
Duties Included:
  • Full Stack Software develoment.
Vectra AI
Austin, Tx.
Apr. 2021 - Apr. 2023
I worked at a unicorn cyber security start up in Austin Texas on the Saas Platform team. I was given the resposibility of connecting our on premise Back End Django Application to Our Saas Application running on EKS.
Duties Included:
  • Designed, built, and deployed fault tolerant distributed systems forwarding network data between on premise and cloud infrastructure in python.
  • Created API endpoints to Create, Update, Delete Users, as well as manage the hosts.
  • Created custom jwt authentication back end in Django REST Framework.
  • Congifured Kubernetes in AWS using design patterns that allowed for scalable multi tenant deployment and configuration.
  • Intermittently Led the deployment to release of our code in jenkins, making announcements daily about any build and deployment issues, promoting from dev to stage to prod, and testing the deployments.
  • Implemented a cli that was responsible for provisioning and updating resources needed when onboarding customers.
OmniVector Solutions
Portland, Or.
Feb. 2019 - Mar. 2021
I worked at a small start working closely with the founder James Beedy. We worked on building automation tools that would deploy and cofigure High Performance Computers at scale with up to 100+ nodes.
Duties Included:
  • Wrote automation software using Juju and kubernetes to dynamically configure, deploy, and horizontally scale HPC systems for our enterprise clients.
  • Improved my linux skills to be able to configure our software across multiple distrubtions, ie Centos and Ubuntu servers.
  • Created CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions to effectively set up the environment, build the software, test, version, and release our products.
  • Helped set up our MaaS environment. This included setting up the network, making nodes discoverable, setting up the network switches, and firewall rules.