Gustavo Andrade

Senior Full Stack & AI/LLM Software Engineer

Natal, Brazil · Open to remote, worldwide

About

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building scalable full-stack systems and, more recently, production-grade AI/LLM applications. Experienced working with distributed teams across Brazil, the US, and Canada.

Skills

AI / LLM
RAG, multi-agent systems, semantic chunking, vector search, embeddings, Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini
Backend
PHP, Laravel, Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js
Data
Apache Airflow, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, vector databases
Infrastructure
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Grafana
Frontend
TypeScript, React, Vue.js, React Native

Experience

2025 — now

Senior Software Engineer · Clearly Acquired

AI-driven M&A marketplace and financing platform.

  • Designed an end-to-end RAG system with semantic chunking and vector search to extract numeric data from complex M&A financial documents.
  • Built a multi-agent platform where specialized sub-agents analyze different financial data types and consolidate insights into a single actionable view.
  • Integrated Amazon Bedrock and Google Gemini in production, comparing model performance and cost across extraction tasks.
2024 — 2025

Senior Software Engineer · Aloware

Cloud platform combining voice, SMS, CRM, and automation.

  • Reduced backend database queries by 20% through query profiling, refactoring, and caching.
  • Replaced Pusher with a self-hosted Socket.io WebSocket layer, removing a recurring third-party cost.
  • Hardened DevOps pipelines on Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Redis for more reliable deploys.
2023 — 2024

Backend Software Engineer · Morsum

E-commerce platform integrating client ERP systems at scale.

  • Built and maintained ERP ingestion pipelines in Python and Apache Airflow.
  • Developed the internal Laravel Nova CMS used to manage all platform clients.
2019 — 2023

Tech Lead · Netshow.me

OTT streaming platform serving live events and on-demand video.

  • Led the adoption of PHP Swoole, leveraging concurrency to handle 5× more requests per pod on the same infrastructure.
  • Drove backend optimizations that cut infrastructure cost while sustaining peak live-event traffic.
  • Mentored engineers via code reviews, pair programming, and recurring PHP/Laravel knowledge-sharing sessions.
2018 — 2019

Co-founder & Technical Advisor · ClickCard

Digital business card platform.

  • Designed the backend architecture and React Native mobile app from scratch.
  • Continue to advise on product strategy, technical roadmap, and architecture.
2013 — 2018

Co-founder & Software Engineer · Fala Síndico

Digital signage startup deployed across 1,000+ residential screens.

  • Led all technical development from day one, designing and building the platform end-to-end.

Education

2015 — 2016
Specialization, Mobile Application Development
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
2006 — 2010
Bachelor's, Computer Software Engineering
Universidade Potiguar (UnP)

Certifications & Languages

Zend Certified PHP Engineer (ZCE) — 2017

Portuguese (native) · English (fluent, CEFR C1)

Contact

contato@gustavoandrade.net GitHub LinkedIn CV (PDF)