Leon Maia
Software Architect at Danske Bank
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolLeon Maia is a software architect with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems across SaaS, fintech, and media. He blends practical engineering with strategic architecture, having led platform migrations, streaming pipelines, and reliability initiatives at Zendesk and now defining target architecture for 25 squads at Danske Bank. Leon has deep expertise integrating ML/AI features into production, building Kafka-based replication pipelines, and scaling video and payment platforms across datacenters. He’s as comfortable mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction as he is writing code and conducting code reviews, favoring pragmatic solutions that balance long-term vision with delivery. Based in Copenhagen, he brings a track record of reducing incidents and improving SLAs while enabling near-instant automated credit decisions in regulated environments. An early career background spanning mobile, backend APIs and continuous delivery gives him unusually broad fluency across stacks and operational practices.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Universidade de Fortaleza
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (74)
http10
client-library10
event-loop10
thrift10
postgresql-database10
mysql10
finagle10
distributed-systems10
java10
scala10
rpc10
fault-tolerant10
apache-kafka10
fault10
redis10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leonmaia/vote-api
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 1 push in 3 days
leonmaia/finagle-postgres
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
PostgreSQL protocol support for Finagle
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 15 branches in 9 months
postgresqlfinaglepostgresql-protocolpostgres
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