Leone Lage Perdigão
Principal AI Architect | ML, GenAI & Agentic Systems @ TaoQ AILeone Lage Perdigão
Principal AI Architect | ML, GenAI & Agentic Systems @ TaoQ AIServices
$360 / month
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MentorCruise summary
Leone is a Principal AI Architect at TaoQ AI. He has more than 15 years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, and AI, and leads architecture and R&D at PostNL's AI Centre of Excellence. He helps engineers design production AI systems, build AI security skills, and move into senior specialist roles.
Based on 5 verified mentee reviews
- Reviewers often praise his clear study plans and practical exercises for building AI skills.
- Several reviewers describe Leone as approachable and available for questions while offering steady support.
- Two reviews point to his help with career direction, including identifying skills to build and mapping a realistic path forward.
About
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.
What mentees say
5 out of 5 stars
Working with Leone as my mentor has been an absolute pleasure! My goal is to become an AI engineer, and Leone’s depth of expertise is truly phenomenal—he doesn't just excel in AI and ML, but also possesses profound knowledge across traditional SWE domains and security. He is incredibly professional, approachable, and always helpful. He built a detailed, well-structured study plan for me, and for every question I asked, he provided thorough explanations—going above and beyond to ensure all concepts were crystal clear. I couldn't have asked for a better guide on my technical journey, and I highly recommend him as a mentor to anyone!
Judy
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.
Antonella
Standard Plan • 1 month
5 out of 5 stars
I am very satisfied with my mentor. He built a clear program for me to improve my technical and professional skills in the field of AI. He is always available for questions, easy to talk to, and provides a very professional and comprehensive plan with practical exercises. Throughout the journey, he supports me and helps me understand what steps I need to take and how to overcome challenges. He is a pleasant person to communicate with, and I feel comfortable asking even the smallest questions. I highly recommend him as a mentor to anyone.
Ran
Standard Plan • 2 months
Get to know Leone
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Article 5 min readEU AI Act: What Your Engineering Team Actually Needs to Change
The regulation is live. Enforcement starts in months. And most engineering teams still have no practical roadmap for compliance.
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Article 5 min readLessons from building AI architecture at scale — including the hard parts that don’t make it into…
Recently, I’m spending months deep in enterprise AI architecture. Not vendor demos or proof-of-concepts, actual production systems at a…
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What happens when you start
You tell Leone your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.
You meet within days. Leone reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.
You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.
