Leo Giovanetti is a seasoned software architect and technical leader with over 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms, from freelancing PHP projects to leading distributed teams of 50+ engineers across multiple countries. He specializes in frontend architecture and product-focused engineering, currently unifying scattered content apps into a next-generation platform using Next.js 14+, React Server Components, Prisma and AWS. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he has shipped features end-to-end at Cal.com and contributed to the popular middy middleware by enhancing its validator to support Ajv plugins and fixing webpack import issues. Beyond engineering, he blends product sensibility with people-first leadership—spawning a proof-of-concept that sparked a company-wide product initiative—and serves as CTO for a civic tech political party in Uruguay. His background as a university web programming instructor and long history of hands-on development give him a rare mix of teaching, tactical execution, and strategic architecture.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PHP & MySQL Developer, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, PHP & MySQL Developer, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at BIOS Uruguay
Systems Engineer, Systems Engineering, Systems Engineer, Systems Engineering at Universidad Católica del Uruguay 'Dámaso Antonio Larranaga'
🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda 🛵
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Leo primarily worked on the validator middleware within the middyjs/middy repository. Their contributions focused on enhancing the validator's functionality by incorporating plugin support for Ajv, including Ajv-errors and bsontype. They updated types, corrected documentation, and refactored the code to accommodate the plugin system with an object pattern. Furthermore, the user addressed a webpack-related issue by specifying explicit paths for dynamic imports.
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