Summary
Gabriel Tobias is a hands-on staff software engineer with 14 years of experience building and rescuing large-scale backend systems, streaming ETL pipelines, and near real-time personalization platforms. He’s driven measurable outcomes at high-profile companies including Spotify, Salesforce, and Apple Music, where he’s focused on high-throughput ingestion, reliability, and delivery speed. Comfortable across Java, Scala, Python and a broad data stack (Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Redis), he blends pragmatic engineering with test-driven practices to clean up legacy code and accelerate complex projects. Known as a fixer-and-builder, he’s often brought in to align teams, unblock delivery, and turn engineering vision into shipped results. His background spans CRM, billing, e-commerce and music personalization, and he pairs deep systems expertise with an unusual early-career fluency in Smalltalk and object-oriented craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Unicesumar
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Foundations in Computer Science, Foundations in Computer Science at Stanford University
Portuguese, English