Leandro Alves
Founding Engineer at HORNET
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolLeandro Alves is a founding engineer and seasoned software professional with 10 years of experience building and maintaining high-performance production systems across cloud, virtualization, and backend engineering. He has progressed from Linux systems administration and large-scale migrations to senior software engineering roles at Vespa.ai and Yahoo, blending deep operational expertise (VMware, networking, backups) with hands-on development of authentication and device flow support in the open-source Vespa engine. Based in Trondheim, Norway, Leandro is known for automating manual processes to improve reliability and productivity—once driving an 80% improvement through process reengineering—and for executing zero-downtime migrations for hundreds of customers. He brings a pragmatic, customer-focused mindset to architecture and security controls, balancing performance optimization with user satisfaction. Comfortable in international, cross-cultural teams, he pairs visionary problem-solving with practical delivery as a startup founding engineer.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2001, Computer Science, 2001, Computer Science at Universidade Paulista2007, Relational Database, 2007, Relational Database at UNICAMP
Github Skills (8)
authentication10
authorizations10
user-authentication10
go10
authorization10
clientside9
vespa9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 128 commits, 82 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Leandro primarily contributed to the device flow support functionality within the Vespa engine. Their work focused on implementing the device flow support, including modifying the CLI and authentication modules. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in creating and modifying code related to user authentication and authorization.
vespacppservingpythondata-science
vespa-engine/vespa-search
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 reviews, 48 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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