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
Senior Director
Visa · Trust & Velocity Engineering · Singapore
Director → Senior Director
Visa · Visa Installments · Singapore
Senior Staff Software Engineer → Director
Visa · Issuer & Consumer Services Platform · Singapore
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Visa · Visa Checkout · Singapore
Senior Staff Systems Engineer → Lead Systems Engineer
Visa · SCM Open Systems · Singapore
Senior Systems Engineer
Quantcast · Singapore
Lead Software Engineer
Visa · V.me · Singapore
Staff Systems Engineer → Senior Staff Systems Engineer
Visa · SCM Open Systems · Singapore
Systems Engineer
Barclays Capital · Singapore
Co-Founder & CTO
PT SkyEight Indonesia & Koprol.com
Software Engineer
Ariba · Enterprise Procurement Software