David Leonard
Principal Architect at ServiceNow
Emeryville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Leonard is a Principal Architect with 13 years of experience designing scalable systems and leading product-focused engineering organizations from frontend design systems to platform analytics. Based in Emeryville, he has driven ServiceNow's low/no-code and UI re-platforming efforts, scaling teams of 50+ and architecting components used across enterprise workflows. He now leads generative AI initiatives for Platform Analytics, blending practical product delivery with emerging AI capabilities. David pairs hands-on engineering—evident from Django starter projects and contributions to the Datadog Terraform provider adding geomap and widget formula support—with senior leadership in UX and platform strategy. His background spans civic-tech at Code for America to industrial UI work at GE, reflecting a knack for translating user research into robust component libraries and developer-friendly APIs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who still gets into the code to unblock teams and ship key features.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Palomar College
Github Skills (28)
dashboard10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
django10
user-authentication10
authentication10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
go10
api10
html10
datadog10
web-development10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DrkSephy/Django-Hackathon-Starter
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 pushes, 1 comment, 38 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:David appears to have primarily focused on the initial setup and structure of the Django web application. Their commits establish the base project, including settings, URLs, and the initial application structure. The user created basic views, and templates, and connected URLs and templates to allow for basic user interaction, including login and registration pages. They also integrated Bootstrap for a more user-friendly interface.
DataDog/terraform-provider-datadog
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Terraform Datadog provider
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:94 reviews, 13 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:David implemented support for Geomap dashboard widgets, including code changes to incorporate geomap widget support, tests, and documentation. The user also focused on supporting formulas and functions across various widget types, such as Timeseries, Query Value, Toplist, Geomap, Query Table, Change, Sunburst and Treemap widgets. Their contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the Datadog Terraform provider's codebase, specifically related to dashboard functionality and data visualization.
datadogterraformterraform-provider
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