Leon Barrett
Senior Platform Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolLeon Barrett is a senior platform engineer in Portland with over a decade of experience building scalable data and AI infrastructure. He earned Ph.D. degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, grounding his work in rigorous research. He currently leads platform initiatives at SonyAI, where he has held roles as Senior Platform Engineer and Staff Software Engineer since 2018, driving systems that power learning at scale. His prior roles span Cogitai, Yieldbot, The Climate Corporation, and Google, giving him end-to-end exposure from research prototypes to production-grade data pipelines and ML workflows. Early research stints at ICSI and Numenta underscore a deep foundation in AI theory, which he translates into reliable, scalable software platforms. He blends hands-on coding with strategic platform leadership, turning complex ML research into resilient, operational systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence at University of California, BerkeleyB.A, Computer Science and Physics, B.A, Computer Science and Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (154)
data-interchange10
protoc10
lua10
monitoring10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
linux10
api10
golang10
protobuf10
json10
text-editor10
kafka10
serialization10
rpc10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
clj-commons/claypoole
Feb 2014 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 51 commits in 7 years
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