Leandro Chaves

Lead architecture, development, integrations, automation, and optimization of large-scale digital platforms for travel, vacation-ownership, hospitality, and e-commerce brands. Designed and implemented a multi-stage agentic AI development pipeline (Claude Code) with security gates, Playwright UI validation, and resumable progress tracking, cutting feature delivery time by ~80%. Own the full lifecycle from requirements and solution architecture through deployment, performance optimization, modernization, and long-term maintenance. Built custom applications, WordPress themes/plugins, backend services, APIs, checkout flows, voucher/affiliate systems, and AI-powered solutions using PHP/Laravel, WordPress, JavaScript/React, MySQL, and AWS. Optimized performance across hundreds of sites (reducing load times between 6–40s to ~1s) and improved Core Web Vitals. Contributed to Solr/SearchStax enterprise search implementations, improving search response times up to 95%. Drove technical SEO/GEO

Developed custom software solutions for digital marketing agencies focused on lead generation sites, CRM platforms, marketing automation, systems integration, technical SEO, and performance-driven applications. Built the digital marketing growth infrastructure for a national franchise network, including a lead-distribution CRM that scaled lead volume from hundreds to multi-thousands per month and automated email/remarketing, helping the network grow from 23 to 70+ units in one year. Implemented and customized LMS platforms (Moodle and Claroline). Designed and developed custom web applications and internal business tools with workflow automation across multiple industries, providing technical consulting, end-user training, documentation, onboarding support, and recommendations to improve adoption and operational efficiency.