Summary
Cristiano Gonçalves is a Front End Chapter Lead from Bahia, Brazil with nine years of experience crafting polished, user-focused web applications and growing high-performing frontend teams. He blends a strong visual and design sensibility with hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, MobX, GraphQL and Vue, and recently deepened his specialization with a postgraduate degree in Front-End Engineering. As a tech lead at Zak he coordinated a multidisciplinary backoffice team, ran product discovery and roadmapping, and paired people development (1:1s and PDIs) with hands-on delivery during critical moments. Now leading frontend at Aarin and Aarin Tech-fin, he focuses on scaling practices and developer experience in fintech contexts. Passionate about teaching and mentorship, he has a background in university robotics research and early leadership in a junior company, reflecting a long-standing commitment to both craft and community. Colleagues describe him as a visually minded engineer who naturally moves between design, code and leadership to push products forward.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Bacharelado, Sistemas de Informação, Bacharelado, Sistemas de Informação at UNEB - Universidade do Estado da Bahia
English, Portuguese