Leonardo Menezesltmenezes

I'm an engineering leader with experience at both big tech and high-growth startups.

I like building great products, shaping technical strategy, and organizing engineering teams to deliver them.

I'm currently working as an engineering lead at Apple in Sweden.Apple · Apple Mapsclick to expandLeading multiple teams and projects building industry-leading capabilities for Apple Maps.

Previously I've worked on:

Improving customer service experience at Spotify (opens in a new tab)Spotify · Customer Service Toolingclick to expandLed Customer Service Tooling engineering at Spotify, one of the company's top 5 operating expenses. I was accountable for an org of ~16 engineers and we made our tools easy to use for our support agents and our platform easy to integrate for product development teams across Spotify.During my time at Spotify I had the privilege of speaking about how we are innovating on advisor tooling at Spotify at LivePerson's Spark Conference at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, US.
Building new financing options at Klarna (opens in a new tab)Klarna · Slice it & Fixed Termsclick to expandLed the development of two payment methods in Klarna: Slice-it and Fixed Terms. We built our Fixed Terms offering from scratch, managed its release, scaled it to support multiple countries, and supported multiple partnerships with external companies to launch new products using our payment method.Klarna PressJune 7, 2021Klarna launches game-changing new shopping feature, bringing interest-free shopping to all online retailersKlarna users can now shop using pay in 3 at any online retailer, regardless of whether they're partnered with Klarna or not, directly from the app.Pay in 3 at any online storeOne-time cardsLive in the US, Australia & Swedenklarna.com Klarna PressOctober 15, 2019Samsung.com partners with Klarna to offer hassle-free payment plansSamsung.com customers can check out with three new payment options, including spreading the cost of a new Galaxy device over up to 4 years.Pay in 30 daysPay in 3Spread the cost up to 4 yearsklarna.com
Making commerce safer at OLX Brasil (opens in a new tab)OLX Brasil · Content moderationclick to expandWorked on content moderation for ads, led the development of a platform to review new ads in real-time.
Integrating new card brands and performing clearing at Stone (opens in a new tab)
Research of parallelization of particle trajectory reconstruction algorithms for the Large Hadron Collider (CERN). (opens in a new tab)

I'm constantly building and tinkering with tech, these are some of my current working projects (these links might break in the future):

findmeal.ai (opens in a new tab) - An experiment of using LLMs as recommendation engines to find restaraunts anywhere in the world.

Feel free to reach out to me via email. (leonardotmenezes@gmail.com)