Summary
Leonardo Tumadjian is a founder and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience architecting distributed systems, leading teams, and mentoring developers from junior to senior levels. He blends deep backend expertise in PHP, Swoole, gRPC and event-driven microservices with modern frontend and cloud practices, pragmatically integrating LLM-based tools for prototyping, code analysis, and documentation. As founder of DifferDev he has directly impacted 800+ developers through hands-on mentorship and curriculum design, and he actively speaks at Brazil’s top PHP conferences on topics from frameworkless architecture to NoSQL migration. Leonardo balances technical trade-offs like cost, latency and production risk when bringing AI features into real products, and prefers product-focused roles where complex, high-scale systems meet developer productivity. His background as an instructor and frequent speaker gives him a rare mix of practical engineering, teaching skill, and architectural vision.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Web Engineering Specialist Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster, Web Engineering Specialist Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster at Centro Universitário Senac
Estácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English, French