Leonardo Almeida
Engineering Manager at Booking.com
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLeonardo Almeida is an engineering manager with 12 years in software and 8+ years leading and scaling high-performing, globally distributed teams across Europe and the Americas. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend experience with a proven track record at Booking.com and FreshBooks of driving delivery predictability, reducing ticket cycle time from 50+ days to 5, and increasing throughput by 200%. A pragmatic advocate for DORA metrics, test automation and on-call rotations, he consistently improves reliability while reducing alert fatigue. He has repeatedly reorganized teams into focused cells, led hiring across time zones, and shipped payment and data platforms using technologies like Airflow, Kafka, Python and Clojure. Leonardo holds advanced engineering degrees from Universidade de São Paulo and brings a rare mix of deep technical craftsmanship and measurable delivery outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a coach who turns process and tooling improvements into sustained ownership and faster business impact.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate, Computer Engineering at USP - Universidade de São PauloUniversity of São PauloHigh School, Eletronics, High School, Eletronics at Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (7)
avro10
validation9
pure-python9
python8
frontend3
react3
microservices2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leocalm/avro_validator
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
A pure python avro schema validator
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 83 commits in 2 years 9 months
avropython310pythonschema-validatorvalidation
leocalm/Lyra
Jan 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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