Gabriel Prando
Gabriel Prando

Gabriel Prando

Paraná, Brazil

Senior Software Engineer

Software engineer focused on backend systems, platform work and distributed architectures.

Building scalable, resilient distributed systems with a focus on serverless, containerized architectures, CI/CD optimization, and observability. Constantly improving developer experience and system reliability.

Experience

6+ years building production systems

Recent

Enterprise SaaS, fintech and high-scale internal platforms

Stack

Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes

Experience

Professional history

Senior Software Engineer

Kojo

United States • Remote

2025 - Present

Kojo is the leading materials procurement platform for trade and self-perform general contractors. By connecting office teams, field crews, the warehouse, and vendors on one all-inclusive procurement platform. Building enterprise features across React/Next.js, React Native and a Node.js/GraphQL backend. Led RBAC migration for roughly 2,000 organizations and 45,000+ users, implemented cross-organization user management, authored technical specs for complex rollouts, and improved query performance, observability and CI/CD reliability.

Senior Platform Engineer

iFood

Brazil • Remote

2024 - 2025

iFood is Brazil's largest food delivery platform with 55M+ users, 400K+ partner restaurants, 120M+ monthly orders and over 80% market share. Designed and optimized CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI for more than 4,000 applications, built automation and backend services with Golang and Java on Kubernetes, and improved deployment safety with Helm and Argo Rollouts. Reduced pipeline execution time by 50% and simplified rollback operations adopted by over 2,000 applications.

Senior Platform Engineer

Conta Simples

Brazil • Remote

2024 - 2024

Conta Simples is a Brazilian fintech that serves 30K+ active businesses with 500K+ corporate cards issued. Redesigned technology-agnostic GitHub Actions workflows, standardized GitHub permissions, built Lambda layers and Serverless Framework plugins, and strengthened the internal platform with Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes. Delivered reusable multi-language CI/CD workflows and an observability layer based on the AWS Lambda Telemetry API.

Platform Engineer

Conta Simples

Brazil • Remote

2022 - 2024

Created internal tools, libraries and SDKs with Node.js and Golang, automated observability provisioning, and built reusable CI/CD workflows for serverless applications on AWS. Defined minimum observability standards, supported the migration of about 400 repositories from Azure DevOps to GitHub, and helped reduce login-related fraud by more than 70%.

Software Engineer

Conta Simples

Brazil • Remote

2021 - 2022

Developed backend features with Node.js, Golang and AWS services such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, Cognito, API Gateway, DynamoDB and Aurora. Built REST and GraphQL APIs, internal libraries and automated tests, and delivered financial products including batch PIX processing and tax receipt attachment workflows.

Backend/DevOps Developer

Bonaparte

Brazil • Remote

2020 - 2021

Bonaparte is an innovation agency based in Porto Alegre that combines collaboration, creativity and technology to drive digital transformation since 2011. Developed microservices with Node.js, TypeScript, MariaDB and Strapi, created and maintained Kubernetes resources, configured Nginx reverse proxy, and contributed to frontend work with Nuxt.js. Also implemented backend features in a serverless architecture running on Kubernetes with Kubeless and Docker.

Education

Academic path

Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR)

2023 - 2026

Focused on energy management systems and control architectures for Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), including IEEE 1547.1 standards and OpenADR 3.0.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR)

2018 - 2023

Covers hardware and software integration, including computer architecture, embedded systems, networking, and distributed computing. My final project focused on sensor networks and high availability architecture for IoT applications.

Selected talks

Public speaking

PT-BR

Nov 2025

How to Scale your PostgreSQL DB

3º DevParana Francisco Beltrão

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PT-BR

Oct 2024

Building Your Own Observability Layer with the AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Serverless Days SP 2024 - São Paulo

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PT-BR

Oct 2024

Demystifying WebSockets with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

Recrutatech 2024 - Curitiba

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Side projects

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