Summary
Gustavo Costa is a Principal Software Development Engineer based in São Paulo with over 15 years of hands-on experience delivering safe, fast, and maintainable digital products. He blends backend systems work in Go and Rust with front-end expertise in React, Vue and PWA delivery, having shipped e-commerce and gRPC-Web apps that served 100k+ users on minimal infrastructure. Comfortable across the stack, he automates deployments and testing using Docker, AWS (ECS, CloudFront, Aurora), Kubernetes, and custom scripting, and configures production servers with LXD and Openresty/Lua. Beyond coding, he drives product discovery with User Story Mapping, hires and mentors engineering teams, and instills a DevOps culture. Notably, he focuses on building what users truly need—optimizing for cost and scalability so systems run on a $5 DigitalOcean machine while supporting real-world load.
15 years of coding experience
English, Portuguese