Leonardo Freitas
Gerente De Plataformas E Serviços Digitais Substituto
Federal District, Brazil
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Top SchoolLeonardo Freitas is a technology and public policy leader with eight years of formal experience coordinating digital platforms, innovation programs and startup policy across federal institutions such as CNPq and MCTI. He combines a computer science background with graduate studies in public administration and specialized training in startup entrepreneurship from Technion and the University of Maryland, bringing both technical fluency and regulatory insight to his roles. As project chief and acting manager of Platforms and Digital Services at CNPq, he designs and runs large-scale funding, evaluation and digital transformation initiatives for science and technology. He helped author Brazil’s Startup Legal Framework and has been recognized for creating and managing the national Startup Brasil program, blending policy design with program delivery. An experienced educator and mentor, he teaches entrepreneurship and mentors incubator startups at IDP while participating in multiple research labs on innovation, governance and tech impact. Notably, his career bridges hands-on open-source advocacy from early Sun Microsystems days to high-level policy instruments that enable venture and public–private collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
Tech Gr, Data Processing, Tech Gr, Data Processing at Escola Técnica Estadual RepúblicaBs, Computer Science, Bs, Computer Science at Universidade Federal FluminenseSpecialization, Entrepreneurship, Specialization, Entrepreneurship at University of MarylandMestrado em Administração Pública, Sandbox regulatório, Mestrado em Administração Pública, Sandbox regulatório at IDPMestrado, Administração, Mestrado, Administração at Universidade de BrasíliaSpecialization, Startup Entrepreneurship, Specialization, Startup Entrepreneurship at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Italian, Latin, German, Greek, French, Indonesian, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, grego
Github Skills (18)
nosql10
cassandra10
scylla10
sql10
cpp10
database10
apache9
aws9
seastar9
grafana-dashboard8
cluster-manager6
cassandra-cluster6
monitoring6
prometheus5
grafana4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lsfreitas/target-repo
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:41 PRs, 133 pushes, 20 branches in 1 day
lsfreitas/target
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:21 PRs, 63 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months
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