Paulo Gonçalves
Senior Software Engineer at Vanilla
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Gonçalves is a Senior Software Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience and 14 years in professional roles, specializing in backend systems while remaining comfortable across the full stack with Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Java, and Rust. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he has a strong track record delivering cloud-native services, containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code for clients like Shopify, GoDaddy and StackCommerce. He focuses on improving code quality and service reliability through automated tests, robust pipelines, and pragmatic engineering practices. A long-time GNU/Linux user and frequent mentor, Paulo also organizes meetups and speaks at conferences, bringing a developer-advocate mindset to teams. Notably, his contracting experience spans both large-scale data pipelines (Apache Beam on Google Dataflow) and low-level backend work (gRPC services and Rust), demonstrating rare versatility across data, systems, and web platforms.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology at Universidade Feevale
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (200)
bug-tracker10
jsonb10
testing10
slideshow10
vim10
nvim10
reveal-js10
locker10
sherlock10
api10
json10
github-copilot10
oracle-db10
pentesting10
nodejs10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
paulodiovani/blog.diovani.com
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 66 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 6 months
gamestabletop-gamesrubyjekyll-siteromance
hacktoberfestnh/hacktoberfestnh.github.io
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Hacktoberfest, Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brasil
Contributions:65 commits, 19 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 month
java
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