Gianni Leslie
Engineering Manager
Summary
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RockstarGianni Leslie is an Engineering Manager with six years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native backend systems, currently contributing to AWS Systems Manager projects. He combines managerial leadership with deep technical chops in backend and DevOps engineering, having shipped features and reliability improvements for the widely used amazon-ssm-agent. His contributions include pragmatic fixes—cleanup after updates, smarter log handling and retries for S3 uploads—and adding observability through debug IPC logging, reflecting an attention to operational resilience. Gianni’s profile suggests he favors shipping small, high-impact changes that reduce toil and harden production behavior. Based in the United States, he pairs engineering management with active open-source involvement in a critical AWS agent used to manage EC2 and hybrid infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
aws-s310
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
devops10
s3-bucket10
linux9
file-management9
debugging8
powershell8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
aws/amazon-ssm-agent
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
An agent to enable remote management of your EC2 instances, on-premises servers, or virtual machines (VMs).
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 53 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gianni contributed to the Amazon SSM Agent by implementing features, fixing bugs, and optimizing the codebase. Their work included adding functionality to cleanup files after agent updates, removing cached manifest files, changing log levels, and adding debug logging for IPC communication. Additionally, they focused on ensuring network access changes in the configuration and also implemented retry logic for uploading logs to S3.
virtual-machine
golang/go
Feb 2022 - Apr 2024
The Go programming language
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 2 years 2 months
goprogramming-languagegolang
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