Hybrid / Remote | Contract-ready · Miami, FL, USA

Diego Leon — Lead Cloud Applications & AI Integration Engineer

Lead Software Engineer and cloud applications architect with 10+ years building production systems across .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise integrations. Strong leadership record modernizing legacy platforms into scalable services, mentoring engineering teams, and delivering AI/LLM-powered products with RAG, tool/function calling, OCR, evidence retrieval, and production-oriented monitoring/cost controls.

Diego Leon
NowLead .NET Software Engineer · NinjaGig
AlsoFounder, developer mentorship and AI/product initiatives · Tech For People Community
StackAWS · Azure · Cloudflare · Azure DevOps

About

Lead Cloud Applications & AI Integration Engineer

Lead Software Engineer and cloud applications architect with 10+ years building production systems across .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise integrations. Strong leadership record modernizing legacy platforms into scalable services, mentoring engineering teams, and delivering AI/LLM-powered products with RAG, tool/function calling, OCR, evidence retrieval, and production-oriented monitoring/cost controls.

  • 10+ Years building production cloud and enterprise systems
  • AI Suite Resume processing, scoring, and candidate-job matching at NinjaGig
  • Super RAG Semantic retrieval, vector indexes, and evidence-grounded legal AI architecture
  • 125 Person team led for COVID-19 telehealth platform delivery in Bolivia

Selected projects

Things I’ve led, built, or shipped.

01

Lex OS — AI-powered legal operating system

AI-powered legal operating system for case analysis, jurisprudence exploration, OCR-enabled document intake, evidence panels, per-case workspaces, and administrative controls.

  • AI
  • LegalTech
  • OCR
  • RAG
02

TechForAGI Gateway — Agent-native API gateway for autonomous AI systems

Agent-native API gateway enabling autonomous AI systems to discover services, request quotes, process tasks, and receive structured machine-readable responses.

  • AI Agents
  • API Gateway
  • LLM
03

NinjaGig AI Suite — AI resume processing and candidate-job matching

AI-powered resume processing, scoring, and candidate-job matching product that parses applicant documents, extracts skills/experience signals, and ranks candidate fit against job requirements.

  • AI
  • ATS
  • RAG
  • .NET 10
04

Tech For People — AI portfolio and developer mentorship community

AI product portfolio and community initiative focused on developer mentorship, AI/product initiatives, and rapid prototyping with AI-assisted engineering workflows.

  • AI
  • Community
  • Mentorship

Skills & stack

What I reach for.

Cloud & DevOps

AWSAzureCloudflareAzure DevOpsCI/CDDockerTerraformGitMonitoringBackup/recoverySSL/TLSPCI operations

AWS Patterns

EC2S3RDS/DynamoDB patternsLambda/API Gateway patternsSQS/SNS/EventBridge patternsCloudFrontServerlessContainer-ready architecture

Engineering

C#.NET 10.NET 8ASP.NET CoreMVCBlazorRazorEntity FrameworkSQL ServerJavaScript/TypeScriptNode.jsPythonREST/GraphQL conceptsSOAP/WCFRabbitMQKafkaSignalR/WebSockets

AI / Data & Developer Productivity

LLM applicationsAI agentsRAGPrompt designTool/function callingOCRVector searchEmbeddingsRetrieval evaluationSource attributionCursorOpenAI CodexClaude CodeGitHub Copilot

Experience

A decade of building & leading.

  1. 2024-09 — Now

    Lead .NET Software Engineer · NinjaGig

    Online Recruitment / ATS SaaS — Remote / USA

  2. 2026-01 — Now

    Contract Software Developer II · SMP Pharmacy Solutions

    Healthcare / Pharmacy Technology — Hybrid / Remote

  3. 2023-05 — 2024-09

    Senior Software Developer · AAPC

    Healthcare Education, Certification & Revenue Cycle — Remote / USA

  4. 2022-10 — 2023-03

    Senior Software Developer · EnKnack / RideGoNow

    Mobility / Ride-Dispatch Platform — Remote / USA

  5. 2022-08 — 2023-03

    Senior Software Developer · CH2 Solutions - FrontSteps

    HOA / Community Management SaaS — Remote / USA

  6. 2022-04 — 2022-08

    Senior / Mid Software Developer · NICE inContact

    CX / Contact Center AI & Cloud Communications — Remote / USA

  7. 2019 — 2021

    CEO & Founder · Sammy Bot / Tercer Elemento S.R.L.

    HealthTech / GovTech COVID-19 Telehealth Platform — Bolivia

  8. 2018 — 2021

    Manager, Server Applications & IT Infrastructure / Azure DevOps Manager / Sr. Backend Developer · Banco de Credito BCP

    Banking & Financial Services — Bolivia

  9. 2015 — 2017

    Jr. Full Stack Software Developer · Banco Solidario S.A. (BancoSol)

    Microfinance Banking & Financial Services — Bolivia

  10. Founder & AI / Cloud Applications Architect · Tech For People Global Corp / TechForAGI / Lex OS

    AI, Agentic API Gateway & LegalTech Portfolio — Remote

Leadership & community

Beyond the code.

  • ASPIRE Leaders Program — Domain Leader, Technology & AI.
  • South Florida Tech Hub — Official Member & active participant in South Florida tech ecosystem activities.
  • Tech For People Community — Founder, developer mentorship and AI/product initiatives.

Education & certifications

Foundations.

  • Associate Degree in Software Programming — Universidad Salesiana de Bolivia.
  • Bachelor's Degree Program in Computer Science · Computer Science — Universidad Tecnológica Boliviana.
  • Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303) — ITColombia / Microsoft.
  • Microservices Architecture with Docker Container — Lite Thinking.

Let’s build something

Hiring for a hard problem?

Lead Software Engineer and cloud applications architect with 10+ years building production systems across .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise integrations. Strong leadership record modernizing legacy platforms into scalable services, mentoring engineering teams, and delivering AI/LLM-powered products with RAG, tool/function calling, OCR, evidence retrieval, and production-oriented monitoring/cost controls.

Location Miami, FL, USA
Mode Hybrid / Remote | Contract-ready
Site diegoleon.me

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