Leonardo Rico is a Product Engineer and senior full-stack developer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping scalable, data-rich systems across fintech, logistics, and geospatial domains. He builds end-to-end solutions—from microservices and event-driven architectures to performant web and mobile frontends—and has led teams at Mercado Libre and product initiatives that handle hundreds of millions of geospatial records and real-time carrier rate aggregation. His work blends practical ML/AI (LLM orchestration, custom embeddings, TensorFlow prototyping) with strong infra skills (Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD), enabling production-grade automation like AI-generated report summaries and transaction classification agents. He contributes front-end tooling such as an Angular drag-and-drop Fabric.js editor and has a knack for translating complex spatial and financial problems into intuitive visualizations and automated workflows. Based in Bogotá, he combines systems engineering discipline with entrepreneurial product instincts honed as a co-founder and technical leader.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
System Engineer, ENGINEERING, System Engineer, ENGINEERING at UNIMINUTO Colombia
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Escuela Normal Superior
Drag-and-drop editor based on Fabricjs for Angular.io
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 44 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Leonardo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Angular-based editor. Their work involved implementing new features such as adding text, images, and figures to the canvas, along with options for saving, loading, and exporting the canvas content. They also updated the user interface by adding buttons, color pickers, and font selection options, enhancing the user experience. Furthermore, the user refactored the project structure, updating project names and titles.
Minimalist boilerplate for NODEJS, designed for vertical and horizontal scalability.
Contributions:277 commits, 31 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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