Summary
Gustavo Pereira is a pragmatic CTO and senior software engineer with 13+ years building high-traffic, mission-critical platforms and scalable cloud architectures across Brazil. He has led teams from seed to scale—most notably growing a careers platform to over 1.7 million users—while remaining hands-on in backend design, microservices, and observability across AWS and GCP. His technical breadth spans Python, TypeScript/Node, PHP, PostgreSQL and serverless patterns, with strong experience in CI/CD, automated monitoring and fraud-resistant payment systems. Gustavo pairs system-level thinking with operational rigor, optimizing for reliability, cost-efficiency and rapid delivery in multi-cloud environments. He also brings proven hiring, mentoring and culture-building skills that turn small engineering groups into disciplined, high-performance squads. A detail people might miss: he combines deep legacy and public-sector systems experience with modern cloud-native practices, enabling safe migrations and long-term scalability.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Kaplan International Languages Empire State Building
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Portuguese, English