Leonardo Varela
Co-founder, CTO at Coally
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonardo Varela is a seasoned technology executive and co-founder/CTO with 14 years of experience building SaaS and on-premises products and leading engineering organizations from startup to regulated-bank scale. He has a strong track record at companies like Nubank and Rapid7 where he drove product strategy, compliance-ready platform transitions, and launched new security and GRC product lines. Comfortable bridging vision and execution, he excels at roadmap planning, CI-driven delivery, and cultivating high-performing, cross-functional teams. His background spans hands-on engineering—from UI architecture to distributed systems research—grounded by an MS from UC Irvine and a BS from Universidad de Los Andes. Based in Austin, he combines entrepreneurial grit with regulatory and security-savvy technical leadership, often pushing teams to challenge the status quo.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los AndesHigh School, High School at Colegio CafamUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (3)
metasploit10
nexpose6
api4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017
Metasploit Framework
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
metasploitmetasploit-framework
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