Summary
Gabriel Kirsten is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience designing and operating highly scalable, event-driven microservices for fintech and large-scale consumer platforms. Based in São Paulo, he specializes in the JVM ecosystem (Kotlin/Java), Kafka-based messaging, reactive stacks (Spring WebFlux) and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes. He has led risk and US-market engineering efforts at Nubank and built critical fintech systems at iFood, including an antifraud rule engine handling hundreds of thousands of transactions and millions of dynamic rules daily. His background blends applied research—MSc work in computer vision and published papers—with hands-on backend systems engineering, giving him a rare mix of ML-informed thinking and production-grade reliability. Gabriel also mentors engineers and leads stress-test and performance initiatives, routinely turning complex business constraints into resilient, observable architectures.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at Universidade Católica Dom Bosco
MSc in Computer Science Computer Science, MSc in Computer Science Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
Portuguese, English