# Gabriel Pinto

Gabriel Pinto is a remote worker on Himalayas, Lead Software Engineer at Fleek, based in Portugal.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@gabrielpinto

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Software engineer based in Porto, Portugal. With a focus on backend and infrastructure.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Portugal |
| Authorized to work in | Portugal |
| Salary expectations | 150k-200k EUR |
| Job categories | Software Engineer, Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineer, Backend Engineer |
| Skills | Software Engineering, TypeScript, Kotlin, Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Java, RxJava, JavaScript, Java Virtual Machine, Python, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, SQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, NoSQL, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, REST, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP2, GraphQL, Jenkins, Software Development, Spring Framework, DDD, DynamoDB, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, NodeJS, Amazon SQS, Express, OpenSearch, AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, AWS CLI, AWS Lambda, AWS Serverless, Sentry, Cloudwatch, Leadership, Node, Lambda, CDK, Rust, AWS Cloud, AWS Services, AWS RDS, Terraform, Go, LangGraph, LangChain Libraries, Lang Chain, RAG Architecture, RAG Search, RAG Techniques, RAG Databases, PostgreSQL Databases, S3 |
| LinkedIn | https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-m-pinto/ |
| GitHub | https://https://github.com/gabrielmpinto |

## About

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Software engineer with 10 years of experience in building scalable and resilient distributed systems, and leading and mentoring teams that build them. Involved in all steps of the software development lifecycle.
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## Experience

### Lead Software Engineer

[Fleek](https://himalayas.app/companies/fleek). Jan 2024 - May 2025

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- Improved load times of static sites hosted on Fleek by ~90%, including our own with only changes to Fleek's underlying infrastructure.
- Oversaw the launch of a Javascript, decentralized edge serverless function service, based on the Deno core library.
- Added support for server-side rendering (SSR) of Next.js apps on our serverless functions service.
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### Senior Software Engineer

[Clipboard Health](https://himalayas.app/companies/clipboard-health). Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

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- Migrated the notification infrastructure to Braze.
- Automated the shift verification flow to reduce the support team's workload by 10%.
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### Lead Software Engineer

[Playco](https://himalayas.app/companies/playco). Nov 2022 - Apr 2023

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- Managed team of 3 in the development and implementation of new features.
- Managed the team's roadmap and backlog, addressing technical and business needs, designing and implementing new features.
- Automated manual processes to free up ~10h a month per developer.
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Skills: TypeScript, Leadership, Management, Express, NodeJS, Node, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Lambda, CDK, JavaScript, Amazon-SQS, AWS-Lambda, AWS-CDK

### Senior Software Engineer

[Playco](https://himalayas.app/companies/playco). Feb 2022 - Nov 2022

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- Developed a game deployment application that had >2000 games published in production.
- Implemented a pipeline to deploy new game builds to production in a matter of seconds.
- Led design and implementation of a template based game creation engine, to create, customize and distribute games in just a few clicks, with instant preview of changes: https://playpass.games/
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Skills: TypeScript, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Express, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, AWS, Sentry, Software-Engineering, Amazon-SQS, AWS-CDK, GitHub-Actions, AWS-CLI, AWS-Lambda, AWS-Serverless, Cloudwatch

### Engineering Manager

IptiQ. Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

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- Managed a team of two people in a production environment supporting development of new insurance products while maintaining support for existing products.
- Involved in designing the career progression during the company's scaling up.
- Improved team delivery by implementing agile methodologies and processes.
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Skills: Java, Kotlin, Spring-Framework, Jenkins, DynamoDB, Redis, AWS, Management, DDD, Spring-Boot

### Senior Software Engineer

IptiQ. Dec 2019 - Aug 2021

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- Developed a white label platform for insurance products, expanding the platform to support six different insurance products in production.
- Stabilized the emailing and document services from ~3 incidents a day to ~3 a month.
- Considered one of the highest performers of the engineering team.
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Skills: PostgreSQL, Spring-Framework, DDD, Java, Kotlin, DynamoDB, Redis, NoSQL, SQL, Jenkins, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Software-Engineering, Spring-Boot

### Software Engineer

[Mindera](https://himalayas.app/companies/mindera). Dec 2015 - Nov 2019

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- Led company wide initiatives to foster growth in teams (retros, code dojos, guild meetings)
- Improved warehouse operations of a client, resulting in a ~20% increase in productivity.
- Reduced the generation time of real time reports for a client’s warehouse activities by ~97%.
- Designed and maintained architecture that had only 3 production incidents in 4 years.
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Skills: Java, RxJava, JavaScript, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, SQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby, NoSQL, Microservices, Kafka, REST, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP2, GraphQL, Jenkins, Go, Spring-Framework, Software-Engineering, Java-Virtual-Machine, Spring-Boot, Ruby-on-Rails, Distributed-Systems, Microservice-Architecture, Software-Development

## Education

### Universidade do Minho

Bachelors of Engineering, Software Engineering

## Tech stack

- AWS CLI
- AWS IAM
- Amazon EC2
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon S3
- kops
- GitHub
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose
- AWS Fargate
- Amazon EKS
- Cloudflare
- Amazon CloudFront
- BunnyCDN
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- PostgreSQL
- Node.js
- Spring Boot
- Spring
- Vert.x
- Spring Framework
- Redis
- Terraform
- RxJava
- Java 8
- Vue.js
- JavaScript
- Python
- HTML5
- Java
- CSS 3
- Kotlin
- Go
- Rust
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Amazon SQS
- ExpressJS
- Amazon SNS
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
- GraphQL
- Elasticsearch
- OpenSearch
- AWS Lambda
- Shell
- Amazon RDS
- TypeScript
- Amazon SES
- Git
- Docker
- Amazon VPC
- PlanetScaleDB
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- SQL
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Amazon ECR

To contact Gabriel, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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