Curriculum Vitae

Leandro Damasio

Principal Software Engineer | Cloud and DevOps Specialist | AI/ML Engineer

São Paulo, SP - Brazil

Results-oriented Full-Stack Software Engineer and AI/ML Specialist with over 10 years of experience architecting and deploying scalable data products, advanced predictive models, and robust cloud-native solutions. Demonstrates comprehensive expertise across entire software development lifecycle, spanning architectural design, implementation, and DevOps automation, within industrial, financial, commercial, and research sectors. Proficiently utilizes Python, JavaScript, and leading cloud platforms to foster innovation and solve complex challenges. Employs asynchronous communication and distributed task management to build highly optimized systems, ensuring secure and stable performance to meet critical business demands. Committed to agile methodologies, promoting collaborative client engagement and continuous delivery.

Skills

AlgorithmsData StructuresProgramming LanguagesFull Stack DevelopmentDevOpsCloudDataArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSoftware ArchitectureObservabilityAutomated Testing

Professional Experience

Enforce - AI Engineer

October 2025 – Present

  • Enforce is part of BTG Pactual Group and focuses on distressed credit and asset management.
  • Designed and implemented "Forja", an internal LLM experimentation and governance platform with RAG pipelines, vector databases (pgvector/ParadeDB) and prompt versioning, reducing the time to test new AI workflows from days to hours for data and product teams.
  • Built "Prompt-Maker", a FastAPI backend to centralize prompt and workflow governance, enabling consistent, auditable use of Generative AI across multiple internal systems.
  • Developed the conversational assistant "Atena", connecting LLMs to legal and financial data through retrieval pipelines and embeddings, significantly reducing analysis time for complex documents and cases.
  • Contributed to the legal analytics platform "Fase", integrating AI components into credit recovery and legal workflows, improving visibility and decision support for high-volume portfolios.
  • Structured a Kubernetes (k3s) + ArgoCD + GitOps environment for AI services, standardizing deployments, isolation and monitoring of GenAI workloads.
  • Promoted AI Engineering best practices — versioning, observability, evaluation and compliance-aware design — to ensure that AI systems are robust, traceable and aligned with financial-sector requirements.
  • Tech: Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes (k3s), ArgoCD, GitOps, Postgres/ParadeDB, pgvector, RAG pipelines, LLMs, embeddings, CI/CD, observability.

Arte Arena - Principal Software Engineer

November 2024 – October 2025

  • Tech Lead & Principal Software Engineer, leading modernization of legacy systems into a cloud-native SaaS platform.
  • Migrated a critical Laravel API to Go, achieving a 42% faster deployment cycle and 39% reduction in compute costs, while improving scalability and reliability.
  • Led the design of a cloud-native SaaS platform using Python FastAPI and microservices, accelerating feature delivery by 85% through modularization and improved CI/CD.
  • Architected event-driven workflows with Kubernetes, Istio and ArgoCD, cutting infrastructure costs by 30% and improving operational resilience.
  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver a full-stack product built with React + FastAPI + AWS, aligning technical decisions with product and business goals.
  • Developed AI-enhanced features using Generative AI APIs and FastMCP (Python) to provide personalized user experiences and embedded AI capabilities in the product.
  • Tech: Go, Python, FastAPI, React, Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, AWS, CI/CD, event-driven architecture, Generative AI APIs.

Stefanini / FAPESP - Senior Software Engineer

October 2024 – March 2025

  • Revamped FAPESP Virtual Library's search engine (Apache Solr), improving query response time by 37% through data indexing optimizations.
  • Directed a global full-stack team to deliver a Laravel-based application for academic research funding.
  • Resolved critical bugs in Django systems, improving stability for over 500,000 monthly users.

NPL Brasil - Software Engineer

December 2019 – January 2022

  • Automated data pipelines using Node.js and AWS, reducing manual processing time by 50%.
  • Integrated Google Cloud Document AI for automated document analysis, increasing operational efficiency.
  • Developed and implemented custom smart contracts on the Ethereum network, ensuring the security and integrity of cryptocurrency transactions.

Global Hitss - Software Engineer

February 2017 - April 2019

  • Designed a scalable data lake with Hadoop and Spark, enabling real-time analytics for enterprise clients.
  • Reduced deployment cycles by 23% through CI/CD pipeline automation (ArgoCD, Docker).
  • Delivered full-stack applications using React and Nest.js for financial sector clients.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

UNIVESP • July 2022 - May 2027 (estimated)

Master in Public Administration and Government

EAESP/FGV • January 2009 - May 2021

Bachelor of Public Administration

ESAG/UDESC • July 2004 - August 2008

Bachelor of Philosophy

CFH/UFSC • January 2004 - June 2008

Languages

EnglishGermanItalianFrenchSpanishPortuguese

Key Achievements

AI/ML

Implemented MLOps pipelines with Kubeflow to train and deploy demand forecasting models, reducing training time by 40% and improving model accuracy by 14%.

Cloud

Migrated over 17 legacy systems to AWS/GCP, achieving 99.9% uptime.

Full Cycle Delivery

Led over 8 end-to-end product launches across various sectors, from fintech to R&D.

Honors

  • Paul Harris Fellow - Rotary Club São Paulo Aclimação
  • Honor of Merit - Higher School of Administration and Management - University of the State of Santa Catarina - ESAG/UDESC

Detailed Skills

languages

Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
Rust
PHP
SQL
Kotlin
Dart
C++
Solidity

full Stack Development

FastAPI
Django
Laravel
Spring Boot
React.js
pytest
Jest
JUnit
Node.js
Next.js
Bun
Nest.js
Restul API
GraphQL
React Native
Flutter
Blockchain
MCP (Model Context Protocol)

dev Ops

Docker
Github Actions
Kubernetes
Istio
ArgoCD
Pulumi
Ansible
Linux
Bash Script
Git Flow
Nginx
Traefik

cloud

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, Route53)
GCP (Document AI, Vertex AI)
Azure (Databricks, AKS)

data

Data Migration
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
Apache Spark
Apache Hadoop
Apache Airflow
Apache Solr
Apache Nifi
Apache Superset
Apache Druid
Apache Flink

A I M L

TensorFlow
PyTorch
Kubeflow
Scikit-learn
NLP
Predictive Analytics
Agentic Runtimes
LLM Memory Governance
RAG Systems
Agentic Workflows

software Architecture

SOLID
Modular Monoliths
Microservices
serverless
MVC
MVT
MVVM
Event-Driven Systems
Agentic Architecture
Program Analysis

observability

OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
ELK Stack
Grafana
Runtime Instrumentation

Additional Works

  • Monitor of Ethics discipline in Undergraduate Course of Public Service Administration at Higher School of Administration and Management of State University of Santa Catarina
  • Founding President of National Federation of Public Administration Students
  • Researcher linked to School of Business Administration of State of São Paulo of Getúlio Vargas Foundation in partnership with Victor Civita Foundation, in a comparative research project on Performance in Basic Education in State of São Paulo: School management and quality of Education: a study on ten schools in São Paulo - https://pesquisa-eaesp.fgv.br/sites/gvpesquisa.fgv.br/files/arquivos/abrucio_-_gestao_escolar_e_qualidade_da_educacao_um_estudo_sobre_dez_escolas_paulistas.pdf
  • Founding President of the Rotaract Club São Paulo Aclimação
  • Public Policy Analyst at e-Stratégia Pública
  • Technical Advisor to the Cabinet of the Municipal Mayor of Florianópolis
  • Statistics Manager of the Municipal Education Secretariat of the City Hall of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
  • President of the think tank Instituto PVBLICA
  • Candidate for City Councilor for PPS in Urussanga (SC)
  • Agreement Manager of the City Hall of Urussanga
  • Candidate for City Councilor for PSOL in São José (SC)
  • Full Stack Developer at NPL Brasil
  • Senior Python Developer at Global Hitss
  • Senior Python Developer at Stefanini / Fapesp
  • Senior Full Stack Developer at Arte Arena