Gabriel Casals
Head Of R&D Operations
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Casals is Head of R&D Operations at Rocket.Chat, combining product-minded engineering leadership with hands-on ownership of hosting P&L, compliance, and developer experience. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he has progressed from engineering manager roles into cross-functional orchestration, improving self-hosted customer tooling and aligning R&D with PMO, SRE, and architecture teams. His background at IBM across SAP, IT management, and business analysis gives him a rare mix of enterprise process fluency and technical delivery chops. An experienced educator and workshop facilitator, he regularly teaches agile, innovation, and change management to universities and enterprises across Brazil and Latin America. Gabriel’s strengths include cost-aware cloud operations (AWS), open server community stewardship, and turning ambiguous initiatives that fall between teams into disciplined programs. He balances strategic oversight with practical enablement, making engineering teams more productive while keeping security and compliance audit-ready.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da FonsecaMsc International Management, Msc International Management at Université de BordeauxMBA in Information Strategic Management, MBA in Information Strategic Management at FGV Management
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
gitbook10
javascript10
react-native10
data-protection10
rocket10
chat10
slack10
android10
meteor10
communications10
webrtc10
conversations10
collaboration10
chatroom9
ios9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/handbook
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
The Rocket.Chat team handbook is the central repository for how we run the company.
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
chathandbookrocketrocket-chatchatbot
RocketChat/Apps.Jitsi
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Rocket.Chat App for Jitsi
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
rocketchatchat-appjitsichatrocketchat-app
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