Summary
David Gouvea is a Staff Software Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience building scalable systems across air traffic control, media, finance, and social platforms, now based in Los Angeles. He blends deep Java and JavaScript expertise with cloud-native and big data architectures, having driven major performance wins such as reducing a data import from eight hours to three minutes. As a maker he launches pragmatic developer tools and open-source projects—most notably aux4, a CLI generator and package manager that accelerates AI agent creation without coding. He has led teams through Agile practices, TDD, and pair programming while also architecting real-time integrations, Electron desktop clients, and LLM-powered automation that completes the bulk of engineering tasks. Comfortable toggling between hands-on implementation and technical leadership, he consistently turns complex domain requirements into reliable, production-grade software. An entrepreneur at heart with a background in business administration, he brings product-minded engineering and a knack for automating repetitive work.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Business Administration at Uninove - Universidade Nove de Julho
English, Portuguese