Gessé Dafé
Senior Architect at XP Inc.
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolGessé Dafé is a Senior Architect with 16+ years designing and delivering distributed systems and productivity automations since 2002, currently driving event-driven architecture adoption at XP Inc. He specializes in Confluent Cloud/Kafka-backed solutions and combines deep JavaEE expertise with hands-on DevOps and IaC practices across Azure and AWS. Proficient in Ansible, Terraform, Packer and shell automation, he focuses on turning complex business requirements into operational, scalable platforms. His background spans consultancy and product development roles—including leading CruxFramework.org—which shaped a pragmatic, tool-building mindset. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he pairs academic rigor (MSc in Computer Science) with a track record of enabling developer productivity and measurable business impact. Colleagues know him for blending architecture-level thinking with day-to-day automation craft that keeps systems reliable and teams efficient.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de ViçosaM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
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Github contributions (4)
gessedafe/k8s-docker-in-docker-poc
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
gessedafe/testes
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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