Carlos Gandarez
Desenvolvedor Backend at Coinbase
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolCarlos Gandarez is a backend-focused software engineer based in São Paulo with over a decade of hands-on experience and nearly two decades in software development. He specializes in Go and backend architecture, having designed APIs, implemented DDD and Clean Code practices, and run services on Kubernetes and GCP across fintech and platform companies. Carlos has driven product-impacting work at Coinbase and Pismo, co-founded Snapfi to improve small-business financial visibility, and led full-lifecycle teams delivering traceability and payment systems. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—helping revamp the WakaTime CLI and VS Code plugin—bringing practical cross-platform experience from Python to Go and Flutter. Known for mentoring engineers and introducing DevOps practices at scale, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for reducing operational friction (once cutting CX manual work by over 90%). Fluent in Portuguese and experienced across enterprise and startup contexts, he blends multi-language depth with product-minded delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art PhotographiqueEnglish School, English School at ALI MontrealBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Paulista
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
api10
time-tracking10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
twitter-bootstrap9
git9
apim9
jquery9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
wakatime/vscode-wakatime
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Visual Studio Code plugin for automatic time tracking and metrics generated from your programming activity.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 19 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the development of the WakaTime VS Code plugin. Their work included implementing new commands and enhancing existing functionalities related to time tracking and configuration within the extension. They also addressed code maintainability by using string interpolation and refactoring code for improved clarity. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating with the status bar to display coding activity, and made changes to support the Arduino IDE v2.x.
visual-studio-codevscode-extensionvscodetime-trackingtracking
wakatime/legacy-python-cli
May 2015 - Sep 2020
Command line interface used by all WakaTime text editor plugins.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the backend logic of the WakaTime command-line interface. They implemented workarounds for issues, integrated new features like line number and cursor position tracking, and addressed merge conflicts. The user also added the ability to log workplace information, and updated the project dependencies and session cache.
pythoncommand-line-interfacehandwritingcommand-linetext-editor
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