Summary
Leonardo Roese is a Staff Software Engineer in Salt Lake City with nine years building full-stack, production-grade systems across startups and enterprises. He architects and ships AI-enabled B2B products and high-throughput dashboards using Java, Python/FastAPI, React/TypeScript, and modern datastores, while optimizing on-prem GPU and service deployments. He’s led end-to-end product development—from prototyping and CI/CD to observability and customer-driven feature prioritization—and has experience reducing time-to-production and large-scale performance tuning. Past roles include founding engineer at a YC startup and delivering cross-service privacy and authentication platforms at Pluralsight, highlighting his ability to balance compliance, user experience, and scalability. A former D-1 basketball player with dual Brazilian–American roots, he brings team leadership, hiring experience, and a competitive, data-driven mindset to engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Gonzaga University
The University of Utah
English, Portuguese, Spanish