Summary
Andrea Leo is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 8+ years of experience building open source messaging and customer engagement platforms, currently serving as CTO and Co-founder of Tiledesk, the first fully open-source web and mobile live chat platform with built-in AI bots. He has a strong enterprise background in ECM/WCM systems using Java, Alfresco and Liferay, and prior roles include leading the Chat21 messaging framework and founding OpenRecordz, an open-data-as-a-service platform. Andrea combines hands-on engineering, API-driven product design and cloud-native SaaS delivery with practical expertise in system integration, agile delivery and team building. Based in Apulia, Italy, he pairs top academic honors in information engineering with a track record of shipping multi-platform, mobile-first open source projects hosted on GitHub. An uncommon strength is his consistent focus on open ecosystems—productizing collaboration and data platforms while keeping them extensible and community-friendly.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master engineer's degree, Information Technology, 110/110 cum laude, Master engineer's degree, Information Technology, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Lecce
English, Italian, French