Gustavo – Python, React, Django
Gustavo is a seasoned Full-stack Engineer with 6 years of experience in Python, React, Typescript, and AWS, and a strong record in both front-end and back-end roles. He has led teams, driven architectural decisions, and delivered measurable impact in large-scale environments, such as Pinterest. His strengths include system-level thinking, ownership, and adaptability.
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Senior Full-stack Engineer
It's a visual discovery platform where users find, save, and organize images and videos to collect ideas and inspiration.


- Implemented critical, well-tested features in a social media platform used by over 500 million users.
- Reduced the loading time of heavy GIF images from 450 ms to 98 ms.
- Built a new tracking and logging system for uploads.
- Integrated internal queues to run heavy processes in the background.
- Implemented new routes in the ATS to connect with Zendesk.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
It's an internal platform that centralizes, retrieves, and creates ticket information from Zendesk and Jira issues. All information is gathered in one place to support employees, managers, and the support team.
- Created a platform used by more than 4,000 employees worldwide.
- Reduced annual AWS costs by 20% by the end of the project.
- Integrated the platform with several external applications, including Zendesk, Jira, and Workday.
- Delivered the project three weeks ahead of schedule due to strong organization.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
It's a product that enables marketing agencies to batch-upload campaign creatives and distribute them across multiple advertising vehicles simultaneously.

- Led a 3-member team (1 mid-level, 2 junior engineers).
- Built the project end-to-end, from system design to architectural decisions.
- Delivered a system that reduced processing time from 3 days to 15 minutes.
- Translated business requirements into well-tested production features.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
It's a platform that streamlines the approval process for marketing assets (videos, GIFs, images) and is used by marketing agencies, clients, and campaign managers.




- Implemented a new process for managing campaign financial data, reducing manual errors by 15% and accelerating review and approval by 40%.
- Created asset processing pipelines (images, videos, GIFs) to analyze, compress, and transmit content.
- Built media players from scratch for all asset types to provide better, controlled visualization.
- Implemented a chat system that allows campaign managers to communicate directly with clients.