Summary
Juan Gilbert is a Lead SDET and AI-savvy engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building QA organizations, test automation frameworks, and production-grade tools across gaming, healthcare AI, fintech, e-commerce, and more. A Computer Science graduate with a specialization in software architecture, he has repeatedly built and scaled QA and player-support departments (including a 50-person QA org and a 100+ device farm at Wildlife Studios) while aligning quality strategy to business OKRs. He combines hands-on development experience—from backend engineering to CI/CD and infrastructure redesign—with people management, recruiting, and long-term capacity planning. An AI enthusiast, Juan developed an 87% accurate speech emotion recognizer, an image alt-text generator, and contributed to an open-source ChatGPT alternative, demonstrating his knack for shipping applied ML features. Known for restructuring teams and processes into matrix organizations and for leading cross-functional automation efforts, he excels at turning complex product priorities into measurable quality outcomes. Based in São Paulo, he brings a rare mix of deep technical craft, strategic vision, and pragmatic delivery.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Graduate degree in Computer Science Engineering (6-yr degree) 1st field Management. 2nd field Software Architecture, Graduate degree in Computer Science Engineering (6-yr degree) 1st field Management. 2nd field Software Architecture at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Spanish, English, German, Portuguese