Summary
Leonard Colusso is a seasoned technology executive and current CTO based in São Paulo, with over a decade of experience building high-performance engineering and product organizations across fintech and AI. He has led large-scale digital transformations and product portfolios—structuring squads, OKR-driven governance and teams of 200+—to deliver investment products, banking services and B2B channels with measurable ROI. Leonard combines hands-on technical expertise in event-driven microservices, DevOps and mobile platforms with modern AI stacks (LangChain, LangGraph, Azure IA Foundry, OpenAI) to operationalize conversational and advisory AI in financial services. He founded a startup that cut retail field execution time by 40%, showing entrepreneurial instincts for product-market fit and operational efficiency. Comfortable communicating directly with C-level stakeholders, he’s driven CAPEX/OPEX decisions and prioritized backlogs to accelerate time-to-market for complex regulated products. Fluent in bridging product discovery, architecture and delivery, he brings a rare mix of strategic leadership and deep technical execution in fintech-AI convergence.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Investimentos e Private banking, Master of Business Administration - MBA Investimentos e Private banking at Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Portuguese, English