Leonardo Souza
Software Engineer
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorLeonardo Souza is a Director of Engineering based in Leiden with over a decade of experience leading distributed teams and delivering education-focused technology products at scale. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering roots (Rails, Python, Elasticsearch, Ember.js) with strategic technical leadership, having driven product and architecture decisions for medical education platforms like Firecracker at Wolters Kluwer. Known for solving technical, organizational and communication challenges, he emphasizes consolidation, automation and pragmatic integration of third‑party services to boost efficiency. Passionate about learning, storytelling and UX, he builds systems that prioritize pedagogy—spaced repetition, practice exams and personalized recommendations—while keeping developer experience in mind. Beyond corporate roles he has a long history of building recommendation and search systems, multilingual NLP tools, and even early large-scale collaborative filtering at major Brazilian e‑commerce sites. His moonshot is establishing a free, holistic professional training program in Brazil that pairs hands-on consulting work with leadership and design thinking education.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
recipe10
cookbook9
mongoose9
fiber7
socket6
package-json6
pebble6
mongodb6
aws-s36
nodejs6
websocket6
socket-io6
soap-client5
wsdl5
dokku4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
leogsouza/exercism-exercises
Oct 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
leogsouza/academic-kickstart
Jan 2020 - Jul 2024
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Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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