Bernardo Gurgel is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience building web applications and shaping cross-functional, international teams. He progressed from co-founding a student full‑stack shop to senior and staff roles at companies like Impraise and BetterUp, consistently focusing on user-centered experiences informed by empathy-first development. Comfortable across the stack, Bernardo brings pragmatic architecture and delivery skills to products that impact people’s lives, with a track record of mentoring and elevating multidisciplinary collaborators. His background includes formal training in computer software engineering in Brazil and France, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and global perspective. Colleagues describe him as a developer who prioritizes human outcomes as much as code quality, a principle he attributes to influences like Kent Beck.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1, Computer Software Engineering, Master 1, Computer Software Engineering at Université de Bretagne Occidentale
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Bernardo Gurgel - Staff Software Engineer at BetterUp