Hugo Corbucci
Principal Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolHugo Corbucci is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience, currently shaping medium- and long-term architecture strategy for 400+ engineers at DigitalOcean from São Paulo. He blends deep systems design and back-end expertise—Go, Ruby on Rails and distributed services—with hands-on product work across front-end, cloud infrastructure and on-premise data centers. A pragmatic mentor and team builder, he helps teams evolve software to meet business goals while balancing immediate needs and long-term maintainability. His background spans founding a software shop, consultancy at ThoughtWorks, and leading developer-experience and accounts platforms, showing a rare mix of startup grit and enterprise-scale thinking. Hugo is selective about projects, preferring software that helps people rather than just chasing capital, and signals authentic engagement (include a 🌈 to get his attention).
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloHigh School Science, High School Science at Lycée Pasteur
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (119)
go-api10
bug-tracker10
digitalocean-api10
digitalocean10
api10
taiga10
technical-debt10
agile10
scrum10
product-management10
agile-development10
project-planning10
continuous-testing9
scanner9
snap9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fabiokung/rfactor
Dec 2009 - Jan 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 3 years 1 month
refactoringstextmateintegratedrubyaims
hugocorbucci/qualificacao-mestrado
Dec 2008 - Jan 2010
Contributions:33 commits in 1 year 1 month
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