Gustavo Walbon
Senior Software Developer at Luizalabs
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolGustavo Walbon is a Senior Software Developer based in São Paulo with 14 years of experience building low-level and infrastructure software for enterprise and embedded platforms. He has deep expertise in Linux kernel work, CI/CD for kernel and distribution packaging, and bootloader (GRUB2) development—most recently integrating IBM and Red Hat efforts for Power systems. Gustavo has led kernel CI projects that accelerated global kernel builds and maintained Alpine and other distro packaging for Power architectures, combining hands-on debugging with cross-team coordination. His background spans embedded Qt/C++ interfaces and custom Yocto-based Linux images for medical devices, showing a strong blend of systems and product-focused engineering. An open-source enthusiast and habitual hacker, he often connects research ideas to production tooling and knowledge transfer across organizations. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Unicamp and a BE in Computer Engineering, bringing both academic depth and practical impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de ItajubáMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (73)
libgit210
lua10
alpine-linux10
linux10
version-control10
mercurial10
docker10
git-repository9
operating-system9
embedded9
luajit9
git-client9
microcontroller9
rtos8
mcu8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
walbon/ubuntu-bionic
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:25 PRs, 51 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 3 months
walbon/linux-powerpc
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:15 PRs, 72 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 4 months
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