Summary
Gustavo Santiago is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and headless commerce solutions, currently delivering monorepo web apps and CMS platforms at X-Team. He blends strong backend expertise in Python and Node.js with frontend skills in React/Next.js and Shopify (Liquid and WebComponents), optimizing high-CPU client-side applications and serverless pipelines on AWS. As a former tech lead and co-founder, he pairs hands-on implementation with architectural decision-making across Django, Elixir, and modern JS stacks. He has deep experience designing hexagonal CMS architectures and crafting API/GQL endpoints to support diverse frontend consumers. Based in Ceará, Brazil, he brings a game-development mindset to problem solving and a history of shipping both private apps and large streaming video tooling. Notably, his work spans CI/CD automation for Shopify deployments and performance-driven optimizations for complex client-side processing.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program Web Development, Exchange Program Web Development at University of Alberta
Bacharelado Informática, Bacharelado Informática at Universidade de Fortaleza
English, Portuguese