Leonardo Couto
Senior Software Engineer at Beyond
Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonardo Couto is a senior software engineer with seven years of experience building scalable backend systems across finance, IoT, web3, and open-source platforms. He’s currently shaping distributed transportation search at Beyond after helping Mozio rebuild its Python/Django and FastAPI backend, including a GPS tracking service for real-time ride reliability. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs backend expertise (Python, Postgres, AWS, LangChain integrations) with front-end skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and React. He has significant open-source pedigree, contributing full-stack fixes and enterprise features to Rocket.Chat used by millions. A mentor and recruiter as well as a hands-on coder, he runs internship programs, interviews mid/senior engineers, and has guided Google Summer of Code students. Based in Brazil, he combines academic NLP/ML research roots with pragmatic production experience delivering cloud-native, real-time systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
meteor9
react9
back-end-development9
chat9
testing8
collaboration7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:104 reviews, 71 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Leonardo contributed to both the front-end and back-end functionalities of the Rocket.Chat platform. They fixed a bug related to room deletion, implemented pagination for the search message endpoint, and added a "logout other user" endpoint. Additionally, the user worked on UI enhancements, improving alignment and resolving issues within modal components. These contributions span various areas of the application, indicating a full-stack development focus.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
ostjen/sealign
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Use of common-space word embeddings for sentence alignment.
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
nlpsentenceword-embeddingsembeddingswordnet
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