Leo Laksmana

Engineering leader specializing in high-performing teams and agentic AI integration. Transforming engineering organizations through automation, culture, and technical excellence.

Technical Pillars

Engineering Transformation

Leading organizations through culture shifts, from manual bottlenecks to high-velocity automated delivery.

Agentic AI Implementation

Deploying intelligent agents into CI/CD pipelines to augment developer productivity and automate security remediation.

Global Team Leadership

Building and scaling high-performing engineering teams across diverse geographic regions.

Cloud-Native Platform Engineering

Establishing robust, scalable infrastructure using modern DevOps practices and automated provisioning.

Signature Transformations

The 14-Day Delivery Transformation

Transformed Visa's consumer product delivery from monthly cycles plagued by manual QA to a reliable, bi-weekly cadence.

  • Eliminated bureaucratic gates and matured immature delivery processes across multiple product teams.
  • Introduced BDD/TDD automated testing to reduce critical-defect escapes.
  • Reduced median lead time to change from 2 months to a 14-day target.

AI-Augmented Engineering Evolution

Currently designing and deploying agentic AI into the CI/CD pipeline to accelerate developer resolution and security remediation.

  • Developing an AI agent for auto-remediation of SonarQube and Sonatype security scan findings.
  • Building a build-failure feedback agent to provide precise root-cause analysis and recommended fixes.

Scaling High-Growth Product Organizations

Grew the Visa Installments engineering team from 10 to 30 FTEs while maintaining high velocity during market expansion.

  • Restructured team composition to reduce contractor dependency and increase internal capability.
  • Partnered with product leadership to support strategic issuer onboarding and merchant integrations globally.

Professional Timeline

2026 — Present

Senior Director

Visa · Trust & Velocity Engineering · Singapore

2022 — 2026

Director → Senior Director

Visa · Visa Installments · Singapore

2019 — 2021

Senior Staff Software Engineer → Director

Visa · Issuer & Consumer Services Platform · Singapore

2018 — 2019

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Visa · Visa Checkout · Singapore

2016 — 2018

Senior Staff Systems Engineer → Lead Systems Engineer

Visa · SCM Open Systems · Singapore

2014 — 2016

Senior Systems Engineer

Quantcast · Singapore

2012 — 2014

Lead Software Engineer

Visa · V.me · Singapore

2010 — 2012

Staff Systems Engineer → Senior Staff Systems Engineer

Visa · SCM Open Systems · Singapore

2009 — 2010

Systems Engineer

Barclays Capital · Singapore

2004 — 2009

Co-Founder & CTO

PT SkyEight Indonesia & Koprol.com

2001 — 2004

Software Engineer

Ariba · Enterprise Procurement Software