Technology leadership · Architecture · Applied AI

I lead technology without stepping away from the code.

São Paulo, Brazil · working remotely · technical leadership, solution architecture and applied engineering.

Léu Almeida

About me

10 years of engineering, 5 leading architecture and teams.

I'm Léu Almeida. Software engineering since 2016, technical leadership since 2021. At Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein I grew from developer to Tech Lead, Principal Engineer and Software Engineering Specialist, owning architecture, authentication, privacy and the development of technical leaders. Today I run Ansuz Software Lab, between high-complexity enterprise projects and my own products in operation.

  • 10+ years of software engineering in production
  • 5 years leading architecture and teams at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
  • 9 in-house products, from product to infrastructure
  • 16 cases across healthtech, govtech, AI, logistics and infrastructure

What I am hired for

Technology leadership

Engineering management, solution architecture and technical governance across multi-service ecosystems.

Applied AI

Claude, RAG, MCP and AI agents in production, with guardrails and auditing.

Legacy modernisation

Strangler and canary rollouts on platforms that keep serving while the new generation takes over.

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What people usually ask

What time zone do you work in?

São Paulo, Brazil · GMT-3 timezone.

Who delivers the projects?

Enterprise projects and in-house products are delivered through Ansuz Software Lab.

Which languages do you work in?

Portuguese (native) · English (professional B2) · Spanish (basic)

Do you still teach?

Also: mentoring at 1000Devs | Talentos para o Bem (2 cohorts, 2023-2025), training new developers in partnership with Einstein.

My experience

From apprentice web designer in 2016 to technology leadership today — one step at a time.

Present

  1. may 2025 – present

    Technology Leadership · Solution Architecture · Software Engineering

    Ansuz Software Lab · remote

    Technical leadership and architecture on enterprise projects: a govtech platform with 2.1M candidates, cross-border telemedicine with eleven production services, and a multi-tenant voice-agent platform.

  2. feb 2024 – may 2025

    Software Engineering Specialist

    Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein · São Paulo · hybrid

    Technical reference for Access, Registration, Care Coordination and Virtual Reception, connecting engineering, product and business across critical patient journeys.

  3. apr 2023 – feb 2024

    Senior Fullstack Developer · Principal Engineer

    Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

    Technical manager of the Tech Leads and engineers under his remit, driving architectural discussions, initiative prioritization and the growth of technical leadership.

  4. jun 2022 – apr 2023

    Senior Fullstack Developer · Tech Lead

    Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

    Technical lead of the B2B platform: legacy APIs re-architected into microservices and interfaces migrated to microfrontends, steering the platform toward a SaaS product model.

  5. jul 2021 – jun 2022

    Fullstack Developer · Tech Lead

    Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

    Technical management of virtual care and digital channel teams; microservices, microfrontends, AWS, Kafka, serverless and SQL/NoSQL databases.

  6. jul 2016 – jul 2020

    Web Designer → Front End Developer

    Universidade Metodista de São Paulo · São Bernardo do Campo

    Educational platforms (Plone, ReactJS, Node.js, React Native) and email/SMS campaign automation.

2016 · where it started