Summary
Gilberto Garcia is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with 13 years of industry experience, currently serving as Co-Founder, CTO, and CAO of Rain Instant Pay and Software Engineering Advisor at Stepp Inc. He specializes in designing high-availability, secure systems and has built scalable production services using functional languages and JVM ecosystems—Elixir, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Java and Go. Gilberto combines hands-on engineering with product and operational leadership, delivering instant wage-access infrastructure used by millions of workers. He authored a book on the Scala Lift framework and has published technical articles, reflecting a commitment to sharing practical patterns for robust web systems. Based in Orlando, he brings a rare blend of formal logic training from USP and deep functional-programming expertise that informs his system designs and fault-tolerant architectures.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Philosophy, Logic, Bachelor of Philosophy, Logic at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Colégio Dom Aguirre
English, Portuguese