Gustavo Araujo is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput backend systems across payments, developer tools, mobility, and SaaS. He’s skilled in distributed systems, resilience, and performance tuning, having scaled core APIs and notification pipelines that handle millions of daily transactions using Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, Kafka, and Sidekiq. Comfortable across the stack, Gustavo combines strong engineering practices and CI/CD-driven delivery with hands-on work in AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Redis. He mentors teams, drives code quality through rigorous reviews and testing, and has contributed notable open-source improvements to a popular GitLab API wrapper by adding group endpoints and tests. Based in Goiás, Brazil, he brings a remote-first mindset and a consistent record of turning complex reliability challenges into maintainable, well-documented solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Graduação Análise de Sistemas de Computação, Graduação Análise de Sistemas de Computação at Universidade Estadual de Goiás
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Gustavo focused on enhancing the GitLab API wrapper by introducing new endpoints and corresponding tests. They implemented the `group_descendants` and `all_group_members` endpoints within the `groups` module. The contributions included adding the endpoint logic, updating existing documentation, and writing comprehensive tests to ensure the reliability and functionality of the API wrapper.
Contributions:8 PRs, 36 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 5 months
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Gustavo Araujo - Senior Software Engineer at NovoEd