Gustavo Bordoni
Sr Director Of Engineering at Nexcess
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Bordoni is a senior engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling WordPress products used by millions, now serving as Sr Director of Engineering at Nexcess in the New York metro area. He blends hands-on backend expertise—contributing fixes to high-profile projects like The Events Calendar and WooCommerce—with a strategic focus on team architecture, delivery velocity, and technical debt management. Gustavo has repeatedly accelerated release cadence and commercial outcomes (e.g., shrinking release cycles from months to weeks and driving a 35% sales lift after team consolidation) while creating new career pathways such as Support Engineers. He excels at leading distributed teams across time zones and introducing practical systems—QA, API design, templating, and AI-augmented development—that make sustained delivery predictable. He believes the best engineering work couples product alignment with talent retention, and that leadership’s seat belongs at the strategy table as well as the sprint board.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colégio Pedro II
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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286reached
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Github Skills (13)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
debug10
ecommerce10
database9
code-optimization9
databases9
phpunit8
css6
foreach6
loops6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 releases, 915 reviews, 4499 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily contributed to the back-end of the project, with commits focused on addressing a specific problem related to meta data handling and fixing timezone issues in REST API tests. The user demonstrated expertise in PHP, interacting with the database, and adjusting code to avoid errors. The user also tested and corrected issues related to event date and time data input.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
woocommerce/woocommerce
Jul 2014 - Dec 2020
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily focused on improving the WooCommerce backend. Their contributions include fixing PHP compatibility issues, particularly for older PHP versions like 5.2, and addressing warnings on newer versions (PHP 7.4+). They also made improvements to code by removing whitespace, and fixing string formatting issues.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
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