Summary
Bruno Grasselli is a Staff Engineer based in Berlin with 17 years in software development and a decade-plus focus on building maintainable, business-driven systems. He has led teams and technical initiatives across startups and scale-ups—most recently shaping platform and data engineering at DigitalOcean after leadership roles at Marley Spoon and Fyber. His strengths span backend architecture, data pipelines, and scalable APIs using technologies like Ruby/Rails, Kafka, Postgres, and cloud-native tooling, with hands-on experience in high-throughput ad and logistics systems. Known for pragmatic, composable code and strong agile practice, he often bridges engineering and product to turn complex domain problems into reliable, observable services. A detail not always visible on a résumé: he combines deep legacy-system experience from finance and media with modern distributed systems engineering, making him effective at both incremental improvements and large-scale redesigns.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidade Guarulhos
English, Portuguese