Gustavo Fonseca
Lead Software Engineer at Nubank
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Fonseca is a Lead Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 16 years of experience building backend systems and shaping software architecture, currently leading engineering at Nubank. He has a long history with Python since 2009 and a track record migrating monoliths to microservices, mentoring teams, and delivering integrations for high-traffic products. At SciELO he combined technical leadership with domain expertise in scholarly publishing—designing publishing schemas, a packtools library, data lakes and ML pipelines to normalize metadata across multilingual collections. Passionate about programming paradigms, he’s increasingly exploring functional programming and Clojure while advocating for free software through talks across Brazil. A guitarist and yogin outside work, he brings a thoughtful, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving and a proven ability to translate complex domain requirements into robust, production-ready systems.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduate, Software Engineering, Post-Graduate, Software Engineering at Faculdade Impacta de TecnologiaGraduate, Computing, Graduate, Computing at FATEC São Bernardo do CampoSecondary school, Data Processing, Secondary school, Data Processing at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnologica de Cubatão
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (93)
python10
metadata10
backbone10
flask10
backoffice10
syntactic-sugar10
saas10
mongodb10
xml-schema10
xml10
catalog9
doi9
xml-document9
open-access9
interoperability9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gustavofonseca/scielo-manager
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:68 pushes, 47 branches in 5 years 1 month
programs
scieloorg/scieloapi.py
Jul 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:56 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 7 months
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