Gerard Vidal
Staff Software Engineer at HungerStation | هنقرستيشن
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolGerard Vidal is a Staff Software Engineer based in Dubai with over 10 years of experience building distributed systems, backend platforms, and reliable production services. He specializes in Go and PostgreSQL, and has driven domain-driven migrations from monoliths to microservices while owning observability, performance tuning, and cross-team technical direction. At HungerStation he led Checkout and Ordering platform work, introduced tracing and chaos testing, and cut checkout P99 latency dramatically through query and API optimizations. He has a track record of reducing operational cost and CI times, designing event-driven architectures, and creating internal frameworks adopted across teams. Gerard also applies AI to developer tooling and engineering workflows to boost automation and productivity—an uncommon blend of systems engineering and developer experience focus. Comfortable in both startup and large-scale environments, he favors simple, scalable, and resilient designs that align technical decisions with organizational impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
FP Superior, Desarrollo de aplicaciones web, FP Superior, Desarrollo de aplicaciones web at IlernaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
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Github Skills (180)
testing10
code-generator10
golang10
mocking10
kotlin10
rollupjs10
javascript9
sql9
mocks9
webapp9
postgresql9
programming-language9
python9
interpreter9
declarative9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GerardRodes/useful-bash-commands
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:20 pushes in 2 years 7 months
GerardRodes/search-compiler
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Compiles human text searches to a logical tree representation
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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