Leonardo Maier is a Senior Software Engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable, data-driven systems across FinTech, SaaS, e-commerce, and environmental platforms. He blends full‑stack expertise—Node.js, TypeScript, React/Vue/Angular, PHP/Laravel, PostgreSQL/MongoDB—and cloud tooling (Docker, AWS) to deliver secure, high-performance products and SDKs that simplify global payment integrations. At Ambush he focuses on checkout and developer experience, previously automating workflows that cut manual effort by 30% and expanding marketplace integrations that materially grew revenue. He has led small engineering teams to ship real‑time chat and AI‑assisted healthcare workflows that reduced helpdesk load and improved response quality. An active open‑source contributor, he improved Backstage’s create-app flow by adding Git init checks and strengthening tests—demonstrating attention to developer tooling and DX. EU‑based and open to international roles, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong sense for product impact and clean architecture.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:12 reviews, 17 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Leonardo's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the create-app functionality within the Backstage framework. They added features to initialize Git repositories during app creation and implemented checks for Git configuration. Additionally, the user made improvements to the test suite, fixing and expanding tests to cover the new Git-related features and other components. Furthermore, they updated dependencies and modified the app's template, showing proficiency in the project's core development process.
Automatically generates files based on a YAML structure
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 days
code-generationjavascriptcode-generatornodejsyaml
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Leonardo Maier - Senior Software Engineer at Ambush