Leonardo Menezes
Engineering Lead at Apple
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolLeonardo Menezes is an engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and scaling payment and customer-service platforms across fintech and consumer tech. He has led teams at Apple, Spotify and Klarna, shipping new payment products and mission-critical tooling used by support organizations and millions of customers. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer (Java, Python, C#, Postgres, Kafka) and as a people manager, he has repeatedly taken features from prototype to multi-country production. At Spotify he owned tooling tied to one of the company’s largest operating expenses, and at Klarna he launched and scaled Fixed Terms and Slice-it payment methods. Based in Stockholm and trained at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, he blends technical depth with operational focus to simplify complex integrations and platform experiences. His public portfolio (ltmenezes.dev) highlights a practical emphasis on reliability, observability and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
English, German, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (111)
python-client10
sanic10
client-library10
dotnet9
python-web9
python9
nunjucks9
k8s9
dotnet-core9
api-server9
csharp9
azure8
api8
linux8
asgi8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LTMenezes/ember-ufrj
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
LTMenezes/fences
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Fences is an LLM augmented OpenAPI interpreter with a visual interface to easily make requests
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 13 days
backendopenapiswaggerswagger-ui
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