Leonardo Lima is a software engineer with 10 years of experience focused on open-source and Bitcoin infrastructure, currently working as Software Engineer, Open Source at Vinteum in São Paulo. He has deep hands-on experience building financial and payments systems—particularly Bitcoin and Lightning integrations—using Rust, Clojure, Java, gRPC, and PostgreSQL from his roles at Bipa and QuintoAndar. A two-time Summer of Bitcoin contributor (BitcoinDevKit and Fedimint), he has shipped Rust-based streaming and async solutions and proposed library refactors for Jsonrpsee and Tor integration. His background in machine learning and computer vision research (YOLO/Mask R-CNN) and teaching robotics adds a practical research-to-production perspective uncommon in fintech engineers. Fluent in building robust integrations with banks and BaaS partners, he combines protocol-level open-source contributions with production-grade financial engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Secure & Private AI Challenge Inteligência Artificial, Secure & Private AI Challenge Inteligência Artificial at Udacity
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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