Gustavo Avelar
Software Engineer at Envato
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolGustavo Avelar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and search solutions, currently advancing product engineering at Envato. He blends practical industry experience in Ruby on Rails, cloud CI/CD and production APIs with a strong academic foundation—MSc student in Computer Science at UFMG and a B.Sc. in Information Systems—grounded in distributed processing using Hadoop and Spark. Gustavo’s background spans data science and ETL in Big Data projects, where he implemented clustering and feature-selection techniques to tame high-dimensional text data. He is passionate about optimizing search and recommendation systems and brings research-driven rigor to production problems. Comfortable across the full stack, he also holds leadership training (Certificate IV) and a track record of shipping continuous delivery pipelines. Notably, his early undergraduate research directly informed thesis-quality implementations of parallel algorithms on commodity hardware, reflecting a long-standing focus on efficient, scalable algorithms.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Universidade Federal de ViçosaMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisCertificate IV in Leadership and Management, Leadership and Management, Certificate IV in Leadership and Management, Leadership and Management at Australian Pacific College
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (23)
devops9
salt8
aws-cloudformation8
ansible8
aws8
terraform8
kubernetes7
jwt-authentication7
jwt5
signing5
ember-addon4
verification4
backend4
emberjs3
encryption3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eubr-bigsea/tweets-characterization
Jul 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
gpavelar/kafkaproject
Apr 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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