Leandro Silva is a seasoned software engineering leader and startup CTO with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and shipping scalable server-side systems and enterprise integrations. He co-founded Midfy and previously led technology and architecture at Pricefy, Petlove and Locaweb, combining deep programming expertise in Java, C#, Erlang, Ruby, Python and Node.js with pragmatic systems thinking. Leandro excels at bridging coding and management—regularly moving between hands-on prototyping, R&D and running multidisciplinary engineering teams focused on high availability, performance and cost-effectiveness. He has delivered high-throughput SaaS platforms (serving millions of PDFs monthly), large-scale migration programs and mission-critical enterprise APIs, and is comfortable in crisis situations where steady leadership matters. A lifelong educator and community contributor, he publishes technical thoughts and sample code on his blog and GitHub, and holds a postgraduate degree in Data Science & Big Data Analytics. Based in São Paulo, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a knack for turning complex business requirements into practical, production-ready software.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Data Science & Big Data Analytics, Postgraduate Degree Data Science & Big Data Analytics at Faculdade Unyleya
Technician in Information Systems Data Processing, Technician in Information Systems Data Processing at Colégio Elite
Bachelor's degree Nutrition Sciences, Bachelor's degree Nutrition Sciences at Centro Universitário São Camilo
Bachelor's degree Computer Science (Not Completed), Bachelor's degree Computer Science (Not Completed) at Universidade Sant'Anna
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