Summary
Leonardo Scalco is a Senior AI Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience blending web development, data engineering, and production LLM systems. He led a domain-scoped data platform migration and built Kafka-native real-time pipelines, dbt-driven ELT workflows, and CI/CD for zero-downtime deployments at Kleinanzeigen and Adevinta. More recently he designed and shipped production multi-step LLM agents and JVM-based streaming chatbots with end-to-end observability and proactive PII masking, marrying research-rooted rigor with pragmatic engineering. His master’s research in information visualization underpins a strong product sensibility for making complex data and AI behaviors interpretable. Comfortable across Python, Java, Spark, Airflow, Databricks and Kubernetes, he thrives on architecting scalable, privacy-aware systems that turn messy data into actionable, observable ML-driven experiences.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Paraná - IFPR
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
English, Portuguese, Spanish