Marco Leo
Chief Product Officer at Liferay
Cagnano Varano, Apulia, Italy
Summary
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RockstarMarco Leo is a product and technology leader with nine years of focused experience at Liferay, now serving as Chief Product Officer and previously leading product delivery, innovation, and commerce teams. He blends hands-on backend development—contributing to the prominent liferay-portal project around file handling, object REST APIs, and search result actions—with strategic product stewardship to help partners and customers shape their digital future. Based in Cagnano Varano, Italy, he has progressed from software engineer and R&D manager roles into senior architecture and executive leadership, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from code to go-to-market. Marco’s technical depth in API design and integration informs his product decisions, enabling pragmatic roadmaps that balance developer experience and customer outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who moves quickly from prototypes to production-grade solutions while keeping ecosystem interoperability front of mind.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Italian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
api-rest10
liferay10
rest-api10
object-oriented-programming10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
file-handling9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-portal
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3294 commits, 27 PRs, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on implementing features related to file handling and object creation within the Liferay Portal project. Their contributions involved adding logic to download files during object creation and integrating file source URLs. They also worked on defining and implementing the API for the object rest service, creating DTOs and converter classes. Furthermore, the user addressed the implementation of the VulcanCRUDItemDelegate pattern to provide actions in the search results.
marco-leo/liferay-portal
Jun 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 66 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years
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