Gabriel Packer is a pragmatic, self-taught software leader and founder with eight years of experience building reliable, well-tested systems across Elixir, Ruby, and JavaScript stacks. Currently CEO & Founder of Visor Finance and a software developer at theScore, he combines hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, having previously improved fraud and risk pipelines at Stone and scaled IAM solutions at AutoSeg. He champions TDD, DDD, SOLID and first-principles thinking, and has deep Elixir/OTP and Phoenix/LiveView expertise alongside GraphQL/Absinthe and PostgreSQL. A contributor to the widely used Homebrew project, he has experience extending core package-management logic and writing robust tests for platform-specific dependencies. Based in São Paulo, Gabriel is a lifelong learner who values intellectual humility and treats time, energy and knowledge as his most valuable assets.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Developer, Web Development, Fullstack Developer, Web Development at Le Wagon
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 26 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on extending the `Homebrew/brew` package manager functionality. Their contributions involved adding and modifying methods within the `Formula` and `SoftwareSpec` classes, related to macOS-specific dependencies. These changes included the implementation of `#uses_from_macos`, which allows specifying dependencies based on macOS version requirements. The user also added and updated associated test cases.
Contributions:115 PRs, 80 pushes, 129 branches in 10 months
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