Summary
Gabriel Balk is a Senior Software Developer from Rio Grande do Sul with 9 years designing and building backend systems, specializing in Node.js and TypeScript for financial and enterprise domains. He has deep experience architecting microservices and scalable APIs on AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation) and working with PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB in teams following Clean Architecture and agile practices. At Raro Labs he led backend design for lending products at Banco BMG and now contributes at Luizalabs, bringing production-hardened patterns like CI pipelines, containerization and event-driven integrations. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a research-oriented background from university projects that combined Node/Python, RabbitMQ and analytics for industrial systems. Known for problem-solving and translating complex financial requirements into reliable, testable services, he favors maintainable, scalable solutions over quick fixes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Graduando em Sistemas de Informação, Computer Programming, Graduando em Sistemas de Informação, Computer Programming at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria