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Leo GonsalvesSoftware engineer

Programmer with design instincts — drawn to domains that fight back.

A messy problem is my favorite kind of problem.

I'm a programmer with a designer's habits, working mostly in React and C#. Half a decade in, my taste runs toward systems where “this should be simple” turns out to be the most expensive sentence in the room — clinical trials, carbon registries, Belgian payroll.Outside hours are spent making games, creating interactive media, tools, and building LLM-based experiments – making sure I never get too comfortable with the tools I use professionally.

Three companies. Three problem statements that didn't fit on a slide.

Shipped under audit, under deadline, and occasionally under satellite passes.

  1. As senior software engineer, I’m currently building a unified card-payment infrastructure to revolutionize Belgian cafeteria-plan benefits and promote salary transparency.

  2. Part of the founding team behind a bootstrapped geospatial analysis startup, I built a carbon-credit access and analysis tool to Brazilian farmers and landowners.

  3. Software engineer on the team that built Lighthouse — a clinical-trial supply-planning platform modernizing a legacy Java stack.

Built for fun to bring joy.

Check out some of what I've cooked in my spare time:

Game

A tower defense built solo in Unity — pathing, waves, and a stubborn fondness for C#.

Have a system that's grown teeth? Let's talk.

Taking on contract and consulting work — React and C# preferred, ambiguous problem statements welcome.