Founded in 2002, Genuine Technology is a consulting service specialized in building scalable full-function software prototypes and technology advisory for startups, with an emphasis on incubating techno-entrepreneurship.

As the principal architect at Genuine, Leo has over 20 years of software engineering experience as hands-on software engineer/tech lead/CTO, and has co-founded startups in cleantech energy, real estate and health & fitness sectors.

Leo's recent R&D work includes a real-time streaming ETL system, an Actor-based Blockchain system that runs a simulated decentralized cryptocurrency, smart contract DApps on a number of public blockchains, and an Internet-of-Things system interactively managing sensor devices on a scalable cluster.

Prior to that, Leo built and launched SaaS platforms including an IoT system of smart meter compatible thermostats across multiple geographies in U.S. for companies such as Nevada Energy, Comcast, and a health & fitness service platform for business partners 24HourFitness, Disney/go.com and Weider to offer cobranded personalized fitness training programs.

Throughout his career endeavor, Leo has played both management as well as individual-contributor roles in building scalable software products in Scala, Akka, Java, Python, Node.js, persisting and processing data in relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Big Data systems using Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra on distributed cloud computing platforms.

Leo graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University and holds a Master's degree in Mathematics from Virginia Tech.