Gil Gonçalves
Backend Engineer at Doist
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarGil Gonçalves is a pragmatic backend engineer and people-focused engineering manager with 13+ years of experience delivering Python-based web services across startups, scale-ups and larger enterprises. He combines hands-on backend expertise—especially in Python, PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch—with nearly five years of formal management experience building and mentoring high-performing teams, improving hiring processes, and introducing documentation and retrospective practices. Known for fostering psychologically safe teams, he regularly runs internal tech talks (notably on Git best practices) and organizes meetups and coaching initiatives like Django Girls and CoderDojo. Gil prefers pragmatic, event-driven architectures and developer-friendly workflows, and is comfortable moving between individual contributor and staff-engineer roles. Outside work he customizes Linux environments extensively and serves as a Mental Health First Aider, bringing technical craft and wellbeing advocacy into the engineering culture.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (200)
powerline10
statusline10
datasets10
vim10
fuzzy-finder10
command-line-tool10
unix10
heroicons10
glyph10
ruler10
minification10
api10
credentials10
fonts10
font-awesome10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
abend/hr
Feb 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 1 month
LuRsT/dragn
Mar 2013 - Aug 2022
:game_die: Using dice in a Pythonic way
Contributions:58 commits, 35 PRs, 68 pushes in 9 years 7 months
diepythonpython3dicepythonic
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