Gonzalo Calcaterra
Backend Engineer at Strapi
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGonzalo Calcaterra is a backend engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and currently contributing to Strapi Cloud using TypeScript, Node.js, GCP, AWS, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. He focuses on pragmatic, egoless engineering and has improved developer tooling at scale—most notably adding environment management and deployment integration to the widely used open-source Strapi CLI. Prior roles at Taxfix and freelance projects gave him broad full‑stack experience across React, React Native, Redis, Airflow and cloud-native architectures. Gonzalo blends deep work and collaborative practices, preferring thoughtful teams that care about craft and sustainable impact. Trained in computer science and psychology, he brings both technical depth and human-centered thinking to product problems. Outside of code he stays curious and active—climbing, skiing, cooking and making music—which often fuels his practical, user-focused approach.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Psicología, Bachelor's degree, Psicología at Universidad Nacional de RosarioFull Stack open 2020, Full Stack open 2020 at University of Helsinki
Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (14)
command-line-interface10
typescript10
nodejs10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
typescripts10
strapi10
api10
typescript-types10
cli10
command-line10
rest9
koa8
cms7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
strapi/strapi
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 21 PRs, 98 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gonzalo primarily focused on enhancing the Strapi Cloud CLI by adding commands for managing environments, including listing and linking them to a project. Their work involved creating new API calls to interact with Strapi Cloud, defining data structures for environments, and integrating with the existing deployment process. The user also made changes to the deploy command, allowing for environment specification.
cmsdashboardcontent-management-systemheadlessjavascript
gonbaum/strapi-cloud-template-blog-qa
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:11 PRs, 13 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year
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