Leo Benkel
Co-founder And CTO at Founder Institute
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Benkel is a Co-founder and CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable AI and data platforms across Silicon Valley and Europe. He specializes in multi-agent and on-premise generative AI architectures that prioritize data sovereignty, GDPR compliance and secure deployments, and has led integrations from early-stage startups through billion-dollar company scale. A pragmatic polyglot engineer and instructor in Scala, he blends functional programming, ML systems, and robust infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) to move research into production. Beyond product work he advises and mentors founders and CTOs through PURE LAMBDA and multiple accelerators, while actively contributing to open-source tooling and developer education. Notably, his background spans both low-level systems and high-impact business outcomes—saving companies significant costs through pipeline optimizations and designing corporate libraries and safety tooling adopted across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Institut supérieur d'électronique et du numérique
French, English
Github Skills (200)
apache-spark10
testing10
security-automation10
effects10
openapi10
big-data10
browser10
webui10
sbt-plugin10
concurrent10
llama10
apache10
sonatype10
llm10
tracks10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
The-Brains/UsefulScripts
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
Collection of useful scripts.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
shellscriptuseful-scriptsbash
leobenkel/Laeta
May 2020 - Jul 2023
Agnostic service registry with fully typed retrieval
Contributions:23 reviews, 35 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 2 months
servicesservice-registryfunctional-programmingagnosticscala
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