Douglas Gubert
Staff Engineer at Rocket.Chat
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolDouglas Gubert is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience leading full-stack development and engineering teams from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Rocket.Chat—from Tech Lead to Software Engineering Manager and now Staff Engineer—driving product and architectural work on an open-source, privacy-focused communications platform. Hands-on contributions to the Rocket.Chat repo span frontend and backend improvements, Apps Engine integrations, authenticated API routes, and UX refinements for attachments and live chat, reflecting a blend of product sensibility and deep platform knowledge. Previously he built mobile and backend systems with React Native, Node.js and MongoDB, and managed CI/CD and cloud infrastructure for consumer apps. Comfortable moving between code and leadership, he pairs operational experience with long-term architectural thinking. Colleagues would note his pragmatic refactors and habit of surfacing small infrastructure details (like document.baseURI usage) that prevent future bugs.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico em Redes de Computadores Informática, Técnico em Redes de Computadores Informática at Escola Profissionalizante Fatec Senai Porto AlegreGraduação Ciência da Computação, Graduação Ciência da Computação at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (12)
chat10
javascript10
meteor10
front-end-development10
chat-application10
react9
backend9
back-end-development9
rest-api9
websocket8
react-router6
nodejs6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 499 reviews, 240 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the frontend and backend aspects of the Rocket.Chat platform. Their work included fixing bugs related to the Apps Engine environment bridge, adding features like the Apps Engine Version to the admin info screen, and refactoring code to utilize document.baseURI. Furthermore, the user improved attachment displays, implemented authenticated API route options, and added a feature for handling URL parsing within apps messages. They also participated in a refactor to use the transformMappedData and addressed an issue with message senders in live chat rooms.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
d-gubert/d-gubert
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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