Leo offers his expertise as an advisor, consultant and mentor for companies who want to achieve engineering excellence and drive sustainable growth.

Leo discovered his passion for science and technology during his childhood in France, and began writing code at an early age. This led him to a career in Silicon Valley, the heart of worldwide technological innovation, where the future is built. Over 10 years, Leo gained cutting-edge knowledge and skills for building technologies and teams. His experiences include participating in early-stage startups, integrating acquisitions, scaling growth at a billion-dollar company, and participating in the launch of entirely new business categories. He has built new software products from scratch, and designed and architected corporate and open-source libraries.

Leo's technical knowledge includes front- and back-end development, functional programming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, multi-agent systems, data science, and engineering. He is an instructor in the Scala programming language. Other knowledge areas include open source development, computer-assisted design (CAD), account-based marketing (ABM), search engine optimization, and user acquisition and conversion funnel.

Leo is very active in the global technology community, developing open source libraries and managing online communities and education. Teaching remains a strong interest which he pursues through speaking engagements at conferences on all continents.

Check out some of his projects:

• https://github.com/leobenkel/tour-of-scala
• https://github.com/leobenkel/ZparkIO
• https://github.com/leobenkel/Soteria