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Hi, I'm

Gustavo Gotha

Senior Software Engineer Β· AI Engineer

6+ years building and scaling production web platforms end-to-end. Currently shipping at a U.S. travel-tech platform serving 300k+ users β€” now going deep on AI engineering.

6+
Years building
300k+
Users served
AI
Current focus
Gustavo Gotha
About

Engineer with an ownership mindset

I'm a Senior Software Engineer and AI Engineer based in SΓ£o Paulo, building production web platforms end-to-end for the last 6+ years. I taught myself English online to break into the U.S. market, and today I ship for an American travel-tech company serving hundreds of thousands of users.

I'm a builder at heart β€” I like owning problems from architecture to deploy. Right now I'm sharpening my craft through a postgraduate degree in Software Architecture and going deep on AI engineering: agents, RAG and LLM-powered products.

Experience

Professional Journey

6+ years building and scaling production platforms β€” from Brazilian fintechs to a U.S. travel-tech company.

Feb 2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈThrifty TravelerΒ·U.S. travel-tech platform Β· 300k+ users

Ship user-facing features and resolve production incidents on the flagship travel platform, improving reliability and supporting MRR growth across the full SDLC with an international team. Joined through the Trio consultancy and hired directly by Thrifty Traveler in 2025 β€” a role I earned after teaching myself English to work for a U.S. company.

Next.jsNestJSNode.jsTypeScriptAWS
Jan 2022 - Feb 2024

Software Engineer

πŸ‡§πŸ‡·Dimensa TecnologiaΒ·Fintech (TOTVS + B3) Β· Investment funds

Led a team of 4 on the AMPLIS asset system and built a company-wide knowledge base that cut new-hire ramp-up time. Developed CIA β€” asset conciliation with the Brazilian Stock Exchange β€” and maintained the GOD asset-management platform.

JavaSpring BootReactAngularJSDocusaurus
May 2020 - Jan 2022

Software Engineer

πŸ‡§πŸ‡·BrydgeΒ·Fintech Β· Consumer payments

Architected payment microservices integrated with the Zoop platform for credit-card flows (balance, cash-in, cash-out), and built Flutter mobile wallets plus React/Node.js dashboards with real-time data insights.

Node.jsTypeScriptMicroservicesFlutterReact
Mar 2020 - May 2020

Junior Software Engineer

πŸ‡§πŸ‡·AiTiA LabsΒ·Software house

Built responsive websites with React and NestJS and helped migrate the WEX web app off legacy CodeIgniter PHP, while designing the Cordova-to-React Native architecture for its mobile app.

ReactNestJSNode.jsReact Native
Toolbox

Skills & Expertise

Full-stack by trade, AI engineer by focus β€” the stack I use to take products from idea to production.

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaDartSQL

Frontend

ReactNext.jsReact NativeFlutter

Backend

Node.jsNestJSSpring BootREST APIsMicroservices

AI Engineering

LLMsAI AgentsRAGEmbeddingsOpenRouterLangGraph

Cloud & DevOps

AWSDockerKubernetesCI/CD

Testing

JestVitestTDD
Technical Leadership & MentoringSoftware ArchitectureScalable SystemsCross-team CollaborationOwnership & Problem-Solving
Side Projects

Things I Build on My Own Time

Where I explore AI, computer vision and entrepreneurship β€” outside the day job.

01
Featured2026

AI SDR for Aesthetic Clinics

Autonomous AI sales agent that qualifies and engages leads for aesthetic clinics. Built on LLMs through OpenRouter with multi-model fallback, grounded by a RAG pipeline with vector embeddings so every reply is accurate and on-brand.

LLMsAI AgentsRAGEmbeddingsNode.jsTypeScript
02
Featured2025

Auto-Shop Management System

My Software Architecture postgrad capstone (FIAP): a cloud-native platform for an auto-repair shop, designed around Clean Architecture. A Java core runs on AWS EKS (Kubernetes) fronted by Kong and Keycloak, with CPF/JWT authentication handled by AWS Lambda + API Gateway and data on PostgreSQL (RDS). The entire infrastructure is provisioned as code with Terraform across dedicated repos.

JavaClean ArchitectureAWSKubernetes (EKS)TerraformAWS LambdaPostgreSQLKong
03
2026

Tibia Eye

A game-automation bot built from scratch to master computer vision end-to-end β€” reads the screen in real time with OCR and navigates the world autonomously through custom pathfinding.

Computer VisionOCRPathfindingOpenCV
04
Founder2025

BuscaPata β€” Pet-Tracking Startup

Founded a pet-tracking venture and built the product plus a WhatsApp bot from zero. The company didn't take off, but it was a hands-on lesson in entrepreneurship and shipping a business end-to-end.

NestJSReactNode.jsWhatsApp API
05
2025

Virtual Library Platform

Built for my church to retire a painful spreadsheet workflow. Members request book loans online while admins catalog the collection with unique codes β€” replacing the old Excel process with a real product. Full-stack monorepo: a NestJS REST API, a React back-office and PostgreSQL, with JWT auth and an admin dashboard, all containerized with Docker.

NestJSReactPostgreSQLTypeScriptJWTDocker
06
2022

Gymfy

A Web3 fitness platform built as my graduation capstone. Members earn GymFy Coin (GYC) tokens for checking in at the gym, with rewards settled on-chain on the Goerli testnet β€” a deep dive into smart contracts and blockchain incentives.

Web3BlockchainSmart ContractsReact
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I'm open to senior engineering and AI roles, freelance work, or just a good conversation about building products. My inbox is always open.

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