Gabriel Engel
Founder & CEO at Endeavor
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Gabriel Engel is a serial founder and CEO with 12+ years leading product and engineering teams to build scalable, open-source collaboration software. As founder and CEO of Rocket.Chat since 2015 he has steered the project from startup to a widely adopted, privacy-first communications platform with on-premise and cloud options and an apps Marketplace. He combines hands-on full-stack development—contributing to front-end UI, Electron desktop clients and Hubot adapters—with strategic product skills honed at Vodafone and earlier ventures. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Gabriel blends entrepreneurial grit with experience in managed services and telecom-grade product management. His long-term vision to replace email with a federated real-time platform reflects a rare mix of technical craft and market ambition. An alumnus of Harvard Business School Executive Education, he’s notable for keeping active in Rocket.Chat’s codebase even while scaling the company.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at Colégio Anchieta de Porto AlegreScaling Entrepreneurial Ventures, Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures at Harvard Business School Executive EducationBBA Business Administration, BBA Business Administration at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (29)
hubot10
javascript10
package-management10
electron10
css10
gui-application10
ui-design10
desktop-application10
desktop10
uid10
front-end-development10
meteor10
templating10
testing9
coffeescript9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
May 2015 - Oct 2022
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:91 releases, 1 review, 3316 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel's contributions primarily involve modifications to the front-end components of the Rocket.Chat platform. The commit messages indicate updates to the loading animation, CSS changes, and adjustments to user interface elements like buttons, suggesting a focus on UI development. The code differences highlight changes within style sheets.
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RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
Official OSX, Windows, and Linux Desktop Clients for Rocket.Chat
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 310 commits, 102 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the Electron-based desktop client for Rocket.Chat. Their work involved replacing the existing Electron boilerplate with Rocket.Chat specific code, which included modifying the main application file (`main.js`) and HTML (`app/app.html`). They implemented node integration changes, loading screen fixes, and the addition of IPC functionality. Further modifications included logo updates and fixing platform names.
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