Summary
Gabriel Avila is a Senior Software Engineer and pragmatic tech lead with 14 years of full-stack experience and four years leading distributed teams across the Americas, Europe and Asia. He combines hands-on coding (currently ~80% of his time) with mentorship—having guided over 40 engineers—and a track record of delivering scalable systems that serve hundreds of thousands of users. Comfortable across Node.js/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Python and cloud platforms, he led creation of a TypeScript framework and architected microservices and AI infrastructure processing billions of tokens/month. At Thread he shipped integrations and features that directly scaled ARR fivefold and reduced CAC, while owning on-call, observability and DORA-driven practices. He founded Hiko Community to foster global engineer collaboration, and recently dove into Web3 and AI, completing postgraduate work in AI for software engineers. Pragmatic and process-minded, Gabriel focuses on simplifying complexity so technology reliably serves business outcomes.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Portuguese, English, Spanish