Gustavo Silva
Co-Founder & Principal Architect at OpenWings
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolGustavo Silva is a pragmatic software architect and founder with 14+ years of experience building high-performance web and AI-powered SaaS products end-to-end. He specializes in the JavaScript/TypeScript stack (Node.js, React, React Native) and has repeatedly turned ideas into market-ready systems at high velocity—shipping three SaaS products in 10 months and a full waitinglist system (API, web app, NPM package) in under 24 hours. As co-founder and principal architect at OpenWings he leads the stack from cloud infrastructure to the AI engine, and previously grew Licitou to over 30 paying customers within a year and processed 200k+ new tenders monthly. His background includes architecting data-scaling scrapers and search systems handling hundreds of millions of profiles, and contributing backend improvements and tests to the well-known Yii framework. He follows a "Just-in-Time" architecture philosophy, applying rigor only when it unlocks scale, which keeps early products lean without sacrificing long-term resilience. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a strong track record of shipping reliable, production-grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Technical High School, Information Technology, Information Technology Technical High School, Information Technology at OpetBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) at Universidade Federal do ParanáBachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Federal University of Technology - Parana
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
yii10
unit-testing10
php-framework10
php10
test-framework8
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yiisoft/yii
Dec 2012 - Mar 2013
Yii PHP Framework 1.1.x
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo focused on improving the Yii PHP Framework, specifically contributing to the model validation system. Their work included adding functionality to create validators on the fly, allowing method chaining, and ensuring code formatting standards. Additionally, the user wrote and improved unit tests for the newly added `addValidator` method, enhancing the framework's reliability. The commits demonstrate a focus on backend development, contributing to core functionality of the framework.
yiiyii1phpframeworkyii-php-framework
gusnips/http-simple-proxy
Nov 2017 - Jan 2022
package to let you run multiple applications on the same port
Contributions:27 commits, 9 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 2 months
proxy-serverproxyhttp-proxyreverse-proxylet
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