Summary
Guilherme Donato is a senior backend engineer with a BSc in Computer Science and nearly two decades of experience designing and scaling high-performance, secure backend systems. He excels at optimizing revenue-critical APIs—recently cutting core API load by 60% and improving response times 5x—and has a strong track record hardening platform security and mentoring teams. Comfortable both leading cross-functional groups and returning to hands‑on delivery, he’s shipped government-grade authentication and large-scale voting platforms as well as long-lived media processing pipelines. A pragmatic polyglot in the PHP/Symfony ecosystem, he pairs deep expertise in PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and Docker with an API-first mindset focused on maintainability. He’s also a tinkerer who experiments with home automation and self-hosting in a home lab, which informs practical choices for reliability and operational simplicity. Known for extending the life of legacy services when appropriate and planning safe retirements when not, he thrives on high-stakes, tightly timed projects.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul / PUCRS
English, Portuguese