Leandro Damascena
Specialist SA - Powertools at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
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RockstarLeandro Damascena is a cloud-native specialist with six years focused on serverless architectures and developer tooling, currently shaping AWS Powertools at Amazon Web Services. He blends backend, DevOps and infrastructure expertise—demonstrated by contributions to high-impact open-source projects such as aws-powertools, diagrams, and CDK serverless patterns—to make developer best practices easier to adopt. His work on cloudiscovery expanded resource discovery across VPCs and added checks for services like ElastiCache, EKS and IAM, reflecting a strong operational security mindset. Based in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, he pairs hands-on coding in Python and TypeScript with developer experience improvements (e.g., GitPod setups and typing), showing a focus on both scalability and contributor velocity. An experienced AWS-certified practitioner who has worked at startups and large fintechs, he brings pragmatic engineering and a habit of turning real-world operational needs into open-source solutions.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (45)
lib10
aws-cdk10
python10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
diagram10
cloud-infrastructure10
vpc10
aws10
typescript-types10
serverless10
typescripts10
ias10
devops10
architecture9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Cloud-Architects/cloudiscovery
May 2020 - Jan 2021
The tool to help you discover resources in the cloud environment
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:21 releases, 11 reviews, 248 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Leandro made significant contributions to the `cloudiscovery` project, focusing on expanding its capabilities to discover cloud resources within a VPC. The user added support for monitoring various AWS services, including Elasticache, IAM Policy, S3 Bucket Policy, and more. They also integrated checks for EC2, EKS, EMR, and added features to locate resources using VPC or subnet IP addresses. These efforts enhanced the tool's ability to discover and analyze resources in a cloud environment.
gcppythonaws-monitoringawscloud-environment
aws-powertools/powertools-lambda-python
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
A developer toolkit to implement Serverless best practices and increase developer velocity.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 2572 reviews, 38 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Leandro contributed to the project by enhancing the development environment and improving project metrics. They added a pre-configured development environment using GitPod.io, simplifying contributions. The user also updated the maximum number of user-defined dimensions for metrics, and improved documentation snippets. Further contributions included incorporating a custom JMESPath function, and incorporating typing with the examples.
distributedidempotencypythoncustom-metricslambda-functions
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