Gustavo Valverde
Senior DevOps Engineer at Toptal
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Valverde is a Senior DevOps Engineer and Cloud/Software Architect with a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native systems for startups, Fortune 500s, and governments from Lisbon. He combines hands-on CI/CD and container expertise—demonstrated by cutting Zebra project build-and-test times from 24+ hours to 45 minutes and fully Dockerizing pipelines—with product-minded leadership that scaled an ERP startup from 3 to 30+ engineers. Gustavo has led government digital identity and COVID logistics projects, contributed to open-source privacy-focused work (Zcash/Zebra), and routinely architects compliant SSDLCs for regulated environments (SOC2/ISO27001/GDPR). Comfortable at both boardroom strategy and low-level optimizations, he blends security, automation, and cost-conscious serverless patterns to speed delivery and reduce risk. Colleagues rely on him to standardize workflows, automate releases, and bridge multidisciplinary teams into consistent engineering practices.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Universidad Iberoamericana
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
github-ci10
docker10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
zcash10
cicd10
test-automation10
testing9
rust9
test-framework9
bash8
gcp7
kubernetes6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ZcashFoundation/zebra
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Zcash - Financial Privacy in Rust 🦓
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 releases, 751 reviews, 124 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily focused on enhancing the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the Zebra project. They added and refined automated tests, particularly for lightwalletd and full sync functionality, using Docker and GitHub Actions. Their work involved modifying the build process, containerizing test environments, and integrating various testing stages to ensure the project's reliability and functionality. Additionally, the user improved the overall test coverage and test environment setup.
rustzebrazcashzcash-node
opticrd/sisvac-odoo-modules
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Módulos de odoo del sistema SisVAC
Contributions:2 reviews, 57 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
sistemapythonodooerpsolidworks
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