Guilherme Blanco
Vice President, Infrastructure And Information Technology (IT)
Florida, United States
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Top expert inWeb Development and E-commerce Solutions with PHP
Guilherme Blanco is a seasoned technology executive with 16 years of experience leading infrastructure, platform, security and engineering organizations, currently serving as Vice President of Infrastructure and IT in Florida. He has a proven track record modernizing legacy systems, designing AWS multi-account architectures, and driving GRC and compliance programs that supported a successful IPO. Hands-on by background, Guilherme has contributed to core open-source PHP/Doctrine projects—improving caching, annotations, DBAL and ORM internals—which reflects deep backend and data-layer expertise not obvious from his executive title. He’s led cloud migrations, real-time auction proof-of-concepts using event sourcing and Kubernetes, and built data lake and CI/CD capabilities to boost engineering velocity. Known for hiring and scaling infrastructure teams, he blends pragmatic architecture with security-first operations and measurable SLAs. His career mixes startup agility and enterprise rigor, making him comfortable both in code-level fixes and board-level compliance discussions.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at UFSCar - AlumniLinux LPI 1 & 2, Computer Science, Linux LPI 1 & 2, Computer Science at Faculdade Impacta Tecnologia
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (54)
unit-testing10
caching10
sqlite10
object-mapping10
admin10
fixture10
mysql10
annotations10
testing10
doctrine10
databases10
query-optimization10
abstraction10
database-administration10
bundle10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/DoctrineCacheBundle
Feb 2014 - Jul 2016
Symfony2 Bundle for Doctrine Cache
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 52 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Guilherme primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Doctrine Cache Bundle, specifically by implementing cache provider aliasing to align with the LiipDoctrineCacheBundle. They updated existing cache providers, such as FileSystem and PhpFile, to match the codebase of other libraries. They also improved the support of ACL cache and fixed bugs related to Redis connections. Furthermore, they added new drivers like Chain, Void, Sqlite3, and Apcu cache providers.
bundlephpsymfony-bundledoctrine-cachecache
doctrine/orm
Feb 2011 - May 2020
Doctrine Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 841 commits, 121 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Guilherme focused on fixing issues with the Doctrine Object Relational Mapper (ORM) in the provided repository. Their commits addressed test failures caused by the presence of the Memcache extension, warnings within PHPUnit, and implemented more unique SQL table aliases. The user also worked on supporting aggregate expressions and improved support for parameters, showcasing contributions to both the core functionality and usability of the ORM.
orm-object-relational-mapperrelationalmysqlphpdatabase
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