Yuri Ghensev
Senior Software Engineer at Doximity
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolYuri Ghensev is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building high-demand customer-facing APIs, distributed systems, and backend services across startups and scale-ups. He has driven measurable impact—cutting latencies an order of magnitude, scaling email systems to handle 60k+ rps and billions of events per day, and delivering features that generated millions in monthly revenue. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks (Go, Kotlin, Ruby, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Kubernetes) he combines pragmatic refactoring with strong observability and CI/CD practices to improve maintainability and on-call efficiency. At Brex and Shift he led cross-functional efforts introducing granular permissions, error-handling improvements, and complex cleanup workflows adopted by major clients. An active OSS contributor, he focuses on reducing dependencies and cleaning codebases to boost performance and long-term health. Based in São Paulo, he balances engineering rigor with creative pursuits—he’s a flutist, skater, and hobby archer—bringing curiosity and steady leadership to fast-moving teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Universidade Federal do ABC
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (14)
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cakephp6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kivanio/brcobranca
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase by removing dependencies on external libraries. Their work included adding required dependencies for core functionalities such as date calculations, modifying the `blank?` method for improved functionality, and fixing code smells. These changes involved updating existing code and refactoring the code to reduce the use of external dependencies, improving the project's overall maintainability and performance.
boletosimplesboletos-registradosremessabrasileirosbancos
yurighensev/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:82 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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