Gustavo Da Silva
Software Engineer at Mercado Livre
Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolGustavo Da Silva is a software engineer with over six years of experience designing and shipping highly scalable, distributed backend systems using Golang and Node.js, primarily on GCP with Kubernetes, Docker and Kafka. He has led architecture and execution for mission-critical microservices—driving a 90% performance boost in payment services and cutting a customer renewal flow from three days to under six hours—while maintaining 99.99% SLAs. As a tech lead he mentors teams, champions DDD, TDD and clean architecture, and has migrated legacy platforms to cloud-native runtimes to improve scalability and cost. He contributes to open-source tooling such as a popular Raycast extension (CPF/CNPJ generator) and maintains a pragmatic full-stack mindset that spans TypeScript, backend systems and mobile integrations. Based in Brazil, Gustavo combines hands-on engineering with operational rigor and a knack for turning slow, brittle processes into efficient, reliable services.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering at UFSCar - AlumniEscolas Técnicas EstaduaisBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (UAM)
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
typescript10
typescripts10
api10
react10
typescript-types10
cli9
apidoc9
mobile-development9
command-line9
app-dev9
command-line-interface9
user-interface9
clipboard8
clip8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily contributed to the development of a Raycast extension, focusing on the implementation of a CPF/CNPJ generator and features to enhance its usability. They added new commands, including an option to allow paste of the generated content into another application and added a command for starting a session with a specific duration. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs and improved the user experience by adding the ability to configure the session duration and corrected a bug related to the session duration reset during changes.
everythingwindowsraycastlinuxneed
gstvds/gstvds
Jul 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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