Leonardo Larrea
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Leonardo Larrea

CTO at Shippify. I build the platforms behind last-mile delivery in Latin America, and the engineering teams that keep them running.

About me
Experience15+ years
Operating acrossLatin America
LanguagesES, EN, PT
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CTO & Director of Engineering

Shippify, last-mile logistics

Scope
Engineering, infrastructure, security, FinOps
Region
Brazil and Latin America
At Shippify since
2013
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Career route15+ years
  1. Computer scienceBSc, 2013
  2. Software engineer2013
  3. Real-time architecture2015
  4. Engineering leadShippify
  5. CTO, ShippifyNow

About

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I’m an engineering leader with 15+ years building distributed systems and the teams behind them. As CTO and Director of Engineering at Shippify, I lead the technology behind a last-mile logistics platform that runs in Brazil and across Latin America.

My work sits where architecture meets operations: platforms that hold up at peak, cloud costs that make sense, and engineers who ship with confidence. I started on hard algorithmic problems like clustering and route optimization, and I still see good technology leadership as creating clarity: clear priorities, clear architecture principles and clear ownership, so teams can move fast without breaking what matters.

Experience

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  1. 2013 – now

    Shippify

    CTO & Director of Engineering

    Joined as one of the early engineers and grew with the company to CTO. Today I lead engineering for a last-mile logistics platform across Brazil and Latin America: product engineering, infrastructure, security and FinOps.

  2. 2015

    Zigo

    Ride-hailing for local taxi fleets, Ecuador

    Designed the architecture from scratch, with real-time dispatch and NoSQL storage built for live latency and concurrency.

  3. 2014 – 2015

    Criptext

    End-to-end encrypted messaging

    Worked on the core Android app and the SDK that let other developers integrate its encryption layer.

  4. 2013 – 2014

    Innovative Venture (HASH)

    Mobile-first video messaging

    Built looping-video messaging close to the hardware with the Android NDK and frame-by-frame sampling.

Capabilities

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Architecture

  • Distributed systems
  • Cloud architecture on AWS
  • Databases and data governance
  • High-performance computing

Platform and operations

  • Platform engineering
  • Reliability and incident response
  • Security practices
  • FinOps and cloud cost

Leadership

  • Scaling engineering teams
  • Product and roadmap ownership
  • AI-assisted engineering
  • Mentoring engineers

Education and languages

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Education

  • MSc, High Performance ComputingSpain, 2024Completed
  • BSc, Computer ScienceEcuador, 2007–2013
AWS certificationsCloud

Languages

  • SpanishNative
  • EnglishFluent
  • PortugueseConversational

Open to new routes

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Available for consulting and advisory work. If you are scaling a platform or an engineering team, let’s talk.

  • Cloud architecture and costAWS design reviews, FinOps, scaling for peak
  • Platform engineeringShared tooling, reliability and developer experience
  • Engineering leadershipGrowing teams, roadmaps and AI-assisted delivery
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