⚔️ Back-end
- Java · Spring Boot
- Node.js · TypeScript
- Kafka · RabbitMQ
- PostgreSQL · MongoDB
- PHP
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Gabriel Alves
Class: Software Engineer · Tech Lead · Game Dev
9+ years building web, mobile and game software: from banking billing systems to AI agents that serve customers on WhatsApp.
- 9+years of XP
- 1M+game downloads
- 2own SaaS products built from scratch
- 🌎clients all over the world
Porto Alegre, RS · PT / EN / DE
01 The chest
I started writing code like someone trying to crack a secret universe. Early on I realized that technology always opens doors for people willing to build good things.
I’ve built software, launched products and validated ideas. Some worked, some didn’t, and all of them left me with valuable scars and one certainty: there’s no good vision without skin in the game.
I’ve shipped games with over 1 million downloads, spent late nights building SaaS infrastructure from scratch, led teams of 5 to 20 people and consulted for companies around the world. Today my focus is helping companies build robust software that actually works.
- Build
- Learn
- Validate
- Scale
- Repeat
- 🎓 Computer Engineering · UniRitter
- 📜 CS50 · Harvard
- 📊 Data Science · MITx
- 🗣️ PT · EN · DE (basic)
02 Journey map
Every stage, a different boss. Click a stage to see what happened.
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Software Engineer · Freelance
Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · Porto Alegre
Development for several companies: Espaço Laser, Alcantara, Tony Robbins Brazil, Contabsul, Regali Per La Casa.
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Software Engineer · GPR COB
Mar 2016 – Jul 2019 · 3 years 5 months
Online banking billing system used in Brazil since 2002. I worked with modern stacks and with the PHP and JavaScript legacy.
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Software Engineer · Asksuite
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Features on React and AngularJS front-ends, back-ends and microservices. High-performance distributed systems for hospitality chatbots with global clients.
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Software Engineer · DROPULL
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
Node.js engineering on an NFT and blockchain platform created and run by LOUD, one of Brazil’s biggest e-sports teams.
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Tech Lead · Use (Uniforme e Material Escolar)
Jan 2022 – Feb 2024 · 2 years 2 months
Technical team leadership, architecture and product delivery.
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Senior Software Engineer · The Access Group (UK)
Feb 2024 – May 2025
On the QikServe product: updates to self-service kiosk software used by restaurant and hospitality chains worldwide.
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Founder · Converza
Feb 2025 – Jan 2026
I conceived and built a platform of AI agents with custom LLMs connected to WhatsApp Business that sell, serve customers and solve problems for massive user bases.
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Tech Lead · Cakto
Aug 2025 – May 2026
I led the bootstrap of a new financial product: banking and in-person payments (Tap to Pay). Focused on scaling and speeding up mobile and back-end delivery in the banking space.
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Next stage: you?
Open to new challenges as a senior engineer, tech lead or consultant. Let’s talk →
▲ Pick a stage on the map
03 Inventory
Products I built from scratch. Inspect the items.
Legendary itemConverzaAI agents · WhatsApp Inspect
A platform of AI agents with custom LLMs, plugged straight into WhatsApp Business. The agents sell, serve, support and solve problems for massive user bases.
- Role
- Founder, product and engineering
- Powers
- LLMs, integrations, SaaS infrastructure
Epic itemKorbitPayments · Digital products and SaaS Inspect
A Brazilian payments platform for people selling digital products and SaaS: fast checkout with Pix and cards in up to 12 installments, payment links, recurring subscriptions and payouts.
- Role
- Creator, from product to infrastructure
- Powers
- Documented API, sandbox, webhooks
04 Arcade
Besides software, I make games. Pick a cartridge.
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GABE-BOY
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Zombies Beyond Me
Deduction · Survival · Third-person action
In a post-apocalyptic world, you might be a survivor or the traitor. Whoever communicates and works as a team wins.
My role: developer
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Last Hope on Earth
Survival
A survival game I developed and published in 2020.
My role: developer
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BomberZilla (BBZ)
Online multiplayer · Bomberman-style · Web3
A competitive, skill-based online game in the Bomberman style, built on blockchain (Binance Smart Chain), with tournaments, NFTs and token rewards.
My role: one of the lead gameplay engineers on the project, working on mechanics, game systems and game feel. I wasn’t the game’s creator, but I helped bring the gameplay to life.
05 Skill tree
🛡️ Front-end & Mobile
- React
- Electron
- Mobile
- Angular
🏰 Infra & AI
- AWS · Terraform
- Docker · Kubernetes
- LLMs · AI agents
- Microservices
👑 Leadership
- Tech Lead (teams of 5–20)
- Product · Founder
- International consulting
- Game Dev
06 Daily grind
Each square is a day of commits over the last 12 months. Real data from my GitHub.
…contributions in the last year
…days with commits
…longest streak (days)
…record in a single day
Hover over a day. Can you find the record day?
see it on GitHub ↗
07 Final boss
To win, pick a door.