Summary
Gabriel Oest is a Staff Software Engineer based in Montevideo with over a decade of experience building backend systems and integrations across finance, media, logistics, and gaming companies. He moves fluidly between Java/Spring ecosystems and Python/Django stacks, and today focuses on cloud-native delivery using Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ and CI/CD with Jenkins. Gabriel has a strong track record of integrating complex enterprise systems (EAI) and shipping production-grade services at companies like Tata Consultancy Services, etermax and now SoFi. He pairs deep backend expertise with practical DevOps skills, enabling teams to reduce friction from development to deployment. Notably, his career began in embedded and optimization-heavy engineering at Petrobras, which explains his comfort with algorithmic and systems-level challenges. Colleagues describe him as a curious engineer who continuously adopts new tools to solve real-world reliability and scalability problems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree Technology in systems analysis and development, Bachelors Degree Technology in systems analysis and development at IFRN
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish