Summary
Pedro Leal is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, performance-sensitive backend services, currently leading Workers KV at Cloudflare. He specializes in designing reliable, low-latency distributed systems and has driven mission-critical features like distributed lock migration and large-scale KV storage. His background spans polyglot microservice architectures (Kotlin, Ruby, .NET) and databases from ScyllaDB and Cassandra to Redis, with a strong emphasis on test-driven development and operational excellence. Based in Porto, he balances hands-on implementation with system-level ownership, often tackling complex consistency and migration challenges that are easy to overlook.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
English, Portuguese