Gabriel Albuquerque
Team Lead Sr Software Engineer at Liferay
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Albuquerque is a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building backend-first platforms, currently leading Liferay’s Low Code (Objects) initiative from Pernambuco, Brazil. He combines hands-on Java, OSGi, REST/GraphQL and Hibernate development with product-driven collaboration—working closely with PMs, designers and engineers to turn customer needs into robust, generalizable solutions. Gabriel has deep experience in enterprise portal features such as data modeling, forms and notification templates, and has contributed to the widely used liferay-portal project by improving email notification testing and template handling. As a people-focused leader he prioritizes clear communication and continuous growth for each team member, while still shipping and reviewing code. His background spans academic research in cognitive radio prototyping to commercial automation systems, giving him a practical systems-thinking perspective beyond standard backend work.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Centro de Informática UFPEBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (9)
testing10
javas10
liferay10
freemarker10
java10
integration-testing10
email-notifications10
javascript9
playwright9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-portal
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1134 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on improving and testing email notification functionalities within the Liferay Portal. Their work involved refactoring integration tests by replacing service method calls with static body templates. They also implemented changes to support freeMarker variables for object entries and commerce orders. Additionally, the user contributed by fixing playwright tests and incorporating new implementations from TemplateContextContributors, showing a focus on testing and template management within the notification system.
gabrielwas/insuranceQuote
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
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