Gerson Gamez
Senior Software Engineer at Shift4
Lima, Lima, Peru
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Top SchoolGerson Gamez is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cross-platform apps and backend systems, currently focused on Go at Shift4 after a multi-year senior role at Encora. He specializes in Golang back-end development and has practical mobile experience with Flutter and React Native, shipping solutions across Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows and web. An active open-source contributor, he improved Iris’ WebSocket reliability by fixing memory leaks and adding connection-management and ping hooks—work that reflects an attention to robustness and real-world operational issues. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines pragmatic engineering with a collaborative open-source mindset and a track record of solving tricky performance and concurrency problems. Based in Lima, Peru, he pairs formal software engineering training with hands-on product experience and a curiosity for cross-platform interoperability.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico en Ensamblaje y reparación de computadoras, Técnico en Ensamblaje y reparación de computadoras at Centro de Alta Tecnología ComputreinGrado en Ingeniería Ingeniería de Software, Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería de Software at Universidad Privada Antenor OrregoProfesional Técnico en Computación en Informática Desarrollo de aplicaciones web, Profesional Técnico en Computación en Informática Desarrollo de aplicaciones web at Instituto Superior Leonardo Da Vinci
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (8)
web-framework10
goroutine10
go10
websocket10
concurrency10
http9
dependency-injection7
golang7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kataras/iris
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gerson primarily focused on improving the WebSocket functionality of the Iris web framework. Their contributions involved fixing memory leaks related to the `time.Ticker` used for pinging and replacing it with `time.Sleep`. They also added features such as retrieving the total number of WebSocket connections, retrieving all connections, and retrieving a single connection. Furthermore, they implemented the `OnPing` functionality for WebSocket connections, enhancing the framework's robustness and control.
micro-frameworkdjangofastestfastest-routesngrok
jerson/react-native-palette-full
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
info about colors from images or url, compatible with **Android** and **iOS**
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 8 months
react-nativereanimatediosandroid
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