$360 / month
2 calls per month (30min/call)
Unlimited Q&A via chat
Expect responses in 24 hours or less
Hands-on support
Start with a free intro call to see if it's the right fit.
$360 / month
2 calls per month (30min/call)
Unlimited Q&A via chat
Expect responses in 24 hours or less
Hands-on support
$360 / month
2 calls per month (30min/call)
Unlimited Q&A via chat
Expect responses in 24 hours or less
Hands-on support
$360 / month
Start free, decide later
I am an Independent Principal AI Architect based in the Netherlands, with 15+ years of experience across software engineering, cloud architecture, and AI. I currently lead architecture and R&D at PostNL's AI Centre of Excellence, where I authored the enterprise AI Reference Architecture adopted as the organisational standard for all AI initiatives. Before that, I was an Advisory AI Engineer at IBM, working across the NCEE market on WatsonX deployments and security product R&D for IBM QRadar EDR. I hold an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with Distinction from the University of Bath.
Moreover, I run TaoQ AI (taoq.ai), an independent AI security and EU AI Act governance practice. I maintain Ziran (github.com/taoq-ai/ziran) an open-source AI agent red-teaming framework. I contribute to NVIDIA Garak and Hugging Face Transformers.
WHAT I MENTOR ON
I work best with mentees who want to move into one of the following specialist tracks:
• AI architecture for production systems: designing and mantaining enterprise AI stacks across Generative AI, Agentic AI, MLOps, and edge deployment. What breaks in production and why.
• AI agent security and red-teaming: prompt injection, tool chain attacks, multi-phase trust exploitation, testing methodology. Hands-on with Ziran, Garak, and Promptfoo.
• EU AI Act compliance for engineers: classification under Article 6, conformity assessment, Annex IV technical file preparation. Regulation read as engineering, not as a compliance checkbox.
• Career transitions into AI specialist tracks: how engineers, security professionals, and governance people actually move into senior AI roles. Realistic timelines, portfolio building, positioning.
5 out of 5 stars
I had the pleasure of working with Leone as my technical mentor during a hands-on Gen AI engineering study plan, and I cannot recommend him highly enough. From day one, he brought the perspective of a senior engineer — not just pointing out what was wrong, but explaining why it was wrong and what the right approach looks like in a real production environment. His PR reviews were thorough, specific, and educational. Every comment came with context, he made sure I understood the reasoning behind each change, which is rare and invaluable. He reviewed multiple phases across multiple blocks, always maintaining the same high standard of feedback without cutting corners. He challenged me to think like a senior engineer — writing specs before code, understanding idempotency, and approaching infrastructure with discipline. Any engineer would be lucky to have him as a mentor or colleague.
Lite Plan • 1 month
5 out of 5 stars
Leone is an amazing mentor. Had great time with him coaching me on my next steps to shift my career to management. He shared his experience, motivations, helped me to createa list of skills i should work on. Over all, I'm happy with the results. Did not managed to shift my career into management, but that is something i will keep working on. I have a clearer perspective on what to do from now onwards.
Standard Plan • 1 month
5 out of 5 stars
Lite Plan • 2 months
The regulation is live. Enforcement starts in months. And most engineering teams still have no practical roadmap for compliance.
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Leone Lage Perdigão
Principal AI Architect | ML, GenAI & Agentic Systems at TaoQ AI
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Specialist-track positioning: what to build, what to read, what the realistic 12-month trajectory looks like. For engineers pivoting into AI security, governance, or architecture.
One concrete problem: architecture review, AI Act classification, red-team methodology walkthrough. You leave with notes and next steps.
