Summary
Gustavo Fontes is an Associate Director of Software Engineering at BTG Pactual with 11 years of experience building low-latency, high-performance systems for electronic trading and market data services. He designs and ships horizontally scalable microservices, real-time WebSocket/REST APIs, and data pipelines using Rust, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Airflow, QuestDB and MongoDB. Comfortable across infrastructure and DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS) he combines hands-on implementation with operational observability via Datadog and Prometheus. His background spans research in time-series forecasting and practical OCR-driven automation, giving him a rare blend of quantitative insight and production engineering. Based in Brazil, he has steadily progressed from hands-on API and pipeline work to strategic engineering leadership in capital markets.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Statistics (Incomplete), Bachelor's degree Statistics (Incomplete) at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Univesp Oficial
Portuguese, Spanish, English