Gustavo Saiani
Founder at Sponda Capital
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolGustavo Saiani is a founder and engineering leader with over 16 years of experience building products, teams, and companies from first principles. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering (React, Elixir/Phoenix) with product and design sensibilities to deliver scalable systems—ranging from greenfield apps that support hundreds of millions of deliveries to investor tools tracking 23k companies over 20 years. As Senior Front‑end Engineer at Metabase and earlier roles at Spoke and Toptal, he shipped core UI/UX improvements and performance work that scaled platforms as their customer bases grew. Gustavo is also an active open‑source contributor and technical writer, improving developer experience in projects like Elixir and Ecto and contributing front‑end fixes to Metabase. Beyond tech, he runs a high‑performing investment partnership in Brazil with market‑beating returns, applying the same capital‑allocation discipline to engineering decisions. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he thrives where technical strategy, resource allocation, and mentoring intersect.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroPintura, Pintura at EAV - Parque LageBFA Jazz and Contemporary Music, BFA Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
javascript10
elixir10
testing10
user-interface10
prop10
component-testing10
ember10
props10
ecto10
react10
documentation10
travis-ci9
userstyle9
styles9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:894 reviews, 293 commits, 726 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo focused on front-end development, particularly within the context of a Business Intelligence (BI) and embedded analytics tool. The commits primarily involved UI improvements, including modifying the display of a revision history modal and enhancing components for custom expression suggestions. The contributions also included fixing UX bugs and styling elements within the application, demonstrating a focus on usability and user experience. Several commits involved adding and updating PropTypes, demonstrating an understanding of component structure and type checking in a React environment.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
elixir-lang/elixir
Sep 2015 - Nov 2020
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:38 commits, 62 PRs, 11 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily contributed to the Elixir project by fixing typos, grammatical errors, and improving documentation across various files, including Kernel, Application, and Agent. Their work focused on clarifying and refining the language's documentation to enhance readability and accuracy for developers. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience through clear and concise documentation.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
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