Hi 👋, I'm Gustavo Araujo

Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems

🌍 Remote-first mindset, working with global teams

💼 What I Do

• 👨‍💻 Software Engineer focused on backend and distributed systems
• ⚙️ Build scalable, reliable, and high-performance services
• 🏗️ Design and evolve internal platforms and APIs used by millions of users
• 🚀 Experience in high-volume environments (real-time processing, async pipelines, microservices)
• 🧪 Strong believer in code quality: tests, linters, CI/CD, observability
• 👥 Enjoy mentoring engineers and fostering a collaborative engineering culture
• 🌎 Remote-first mindset, with years working in globally distributed teams

🛠️ Tech Stack & Tools

• 💧 Elixir/Phoenix
• 💎 Ruby on Rails
• 🧪 Testing: RSpec, Minitest, ExUnit
• ⚙️ Distributed systems, async pipelines, and high-throughput services
• 🗄️ PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• 🐳 Docker, Kubernetes
• ☁️ AWS & GCP
• 🧱 IaC: Terraform
• 🔐 Observability & reliability: Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry

🎤 Community & Open Source

• 🎙️ Speaker at dev events and meetups (Rails, Elixir, scalability)
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Active in OSS — love sharing and learning with the community
• 🧠 Interested in security, software hardening, and system resilience

📫 Let’s Connect

• LinkedIn
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