Gustavo Maestri is a seasoned software engineering manager and former CTO with 12 years of leadership experience and a proven track record scaling teams and products. He grew engineering organizations from single digits to 35+ engineers, led a cloud migration that cut costs 35%, and helped grow customers from 300 to 9,500 while improving retention and delivery predictability. Gustavo excels at operationalizing engineering practices—introducing CI/CD, code review standards, DevOps metrics, and disaster recovery strategies that slashed recovery and cycle times dramatically. He combines hands-on technical depth in Python, React, AWS/GCP, and search systems with a talent for mentoring engineers into management roles and hiring high-impact teams. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to aligning technology initiatives with business growth and M&A outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Post-Degree Web Software Development JavaEE, Post-Degree Web Software Development JavaEE at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
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