Gustavo Catalano
Principal Software Engineer Lead at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Catalano is a Principal Software Engineer Lead based in Seattle with 12 years of hands-on experience and a decade-plus track record at Microsoft, driving Remote Desktop Virtualization and Windows Cloud Experiences. He combines deep platform expertise running Azure services and Windows core components with recent experience growing and mentoring teams to rapidly expand product scope while preserving engineering fundamentals like privacy, security, performance, accessibility, and testing. Known for balancing delivery velocity with a healthy work-life culture, he moves between individual contributor craftsmanship and leadership without losing technical rigor. His early career ranged from web stacks (PHP/MySQL/JavaScript) to distributed systems work in Java and Groovy, giving him practical end-to-end perspective on modern cloud services. Gustavo’s background as a co-founder and contractor adds entrepreneurial resourcefulness and strong cross-functional communication to his engineering toolkit.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Software Engineering, Bachelors Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, French, Polish
Github Skills (18)
api9
api-documentation9
recipe7
new-project7
azure6
microsoft5
jenkins-api-plugin4
jenkins-plugin4
branches4
remoting3
jenkins3
jenkins-pipeline3
gitflow3
configuration-management3
microsoft-azure3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
guscatalano/active-directory-plugin
Apr 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 years 11 months
jenkinsdirectoryjenkins-pluginactive-directory
guscatalano/findneedle
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:173 pushes, 2 tags in 8 months
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