Guilherme Salerno
Software Engineer at Aravita
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGuilherme Salerno is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over a decade of experience building high-scale, user-focused products across Microsoft and fast-growing Latin American startups. He helped shape MSN and Bing Ads at Microsoft before returning to Brazil to play a central engineering and data leadership role through QuintoAndar’s hypergrowth, advancing rental matchmaking and data-driven ML features. Comfortable shifting between hands-on frontend work and strategic management, he has contributed UX improvements to the popular open-source chess server Lichess, demonstrating attention to polished user interactions. A graduate of Brazil’s top engineering school ITA, he combines rigorous technical foundations with product empathy to solve real-world problems that impact people's lives. Now based in São Paulo, he continues to balance software craftsmanship with scaling teams and systems in production.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel em Engenharia Engenharia de Computação, Bacharel em Engenharia Engenharia de Computação at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Portuguese, English, French
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
scala10
game-development9
functional-programming-language9
javascript9
functional-programming9
user-interface8
chess8
react8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lichess-org/lila
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Guilherme primarily contributed to the front-end functionality of the lichess.org project. They implemented features such as displaying the active player's color during a coordinate trainer session and adding keyboard commands for navigation and puzzle interaction. The user also updated the UI to provide a mechanism for up and down voting in puzzle mode. Their work focused on enhancing the user experience within specific game modes.
gamefunctional-programmingplay-frameworknon-profittype-safe
quintoandar/web-contrib
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
Extensions for dependencies we use on Web Projects (PWA)
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 10 months
pwajavascriptdependenciesextensions
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