Diego Gadens Email & Phone Number

Brazil

Brazil

In mid-2021 I took on the challenge of starting a fully remote team of software developers in Brazil, to augment the Luxury Escapes team based in Australia. This project was successful, and we now intend to grow it even further. Back in Brazil from mid-2022, I currently lead a team that fluctuates around 15-20 Node.js / Javascript developers.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

After a 12-month hiatus, I’m back to LE as a Director Of Engineering. My main areas of focus within the business are Flights, Experiences & Ancillaries

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Main responsibilities:— Design, develop and test API based solutions for the Woolworths mobile appsMajor Technologies Used:• Languages— Javascript• Frameworks, libs, and others— Node.js— GraphQL • Cloud / Deployment— Microsoft Azure— Docker— Kubernetes

Sydney, Australia

Lead back-end developer at Lux' Back Office team. • Main responsibilities:— Design, develop and test API based solutions across the full application stack— Maintain existing and develop new features, specially related to finance processes such as integrations with payment gateways and gathering data for the generation of finance reports— Break down and split activities between team members in order to achieve the delivery goals— Use a continuous delivery mindset to ensure a frictionless path to productionMajor Technologies Used:• Languages— Javascript• Frameworks, libs, and others— Node.js— Express• Cloud— Heroku— Amazon AWS— CircleCI— Jenkins

Sydney, Australia

Working as Node.js backend developer in multiple projects across different teams inside the Luxury Escapes platform.

Sydney, Australia

Lead back-end developer in the TabDigital team. • Main responsibilities:— Design, develop and test API based solutions across the full application stack— Take a leading role in crafting and designing innovative solution for complex features— Lead the software development and mentor team members— Work closely with the Strategy & Architecture team to design and implement the Digital API roadmap— Align with business partners to understand requirements and collaboratively implement a target solution— Use a continuous delivery mindset to ensure a frictionless path to productionMajor Technologies Used:• Languages— Javascript• Frameworks, libs, and others— Node.js— Request— Restify— Sinon— Mocha• WebServices — RESTful Applications— JSON• Source Control— GitHub• Continuous Delivery/Integration— GoCD— Bamboo— Travis CI— Buildkite— Docker— Amazon AWS

Sydney, Australia

Senior Back-end developer (Node.js) in the TabDigital team. Tabcorp's digital team is responsible for all the technology regarding the online wagering solutions for Tabcorp products. The APIs deal with requests from both the web client and the native mobile apps in order to provide the logical functionalities present on the front-end clients. The digital team also serves as a technical adviser to the business team providing programming perspective on the requirements needed to meet the business logic.

Sydney, Australia

Back-end (Node.js) developer in the TabDigital team.

Dois Vizinhos - Pr

Lecturer in the Information Systems department. Member of the course board. • Main subjects:— Computer Programming— Theory of Computation— Computational Logic— Mobile Applications Development— Graph Theory— Web Design / Web Development— Artificial Intelligence

Brazil

Teaching programming subjects to teens and young adults ~(15 to 20 years old)The Aprender e Crescer (To Learn and to Grow) project is offered to high school and freshman university students with the focus of teaching programming languages allowing them to enter the IT job market.The program offers free classes (sponsored by the government and local businesses) for up to 2 classes of 30 students where they are taught a wide range of technologies (HTML, CSS, PHP, Java, MySQL, etc) that allow them to have the basic knowledge to enter the job market.The program also offered internship opportunities for the top students at the end of each course, again sponsored by the local software related businesses.

Av. Paulista, 807. São Paulo-Sp

CORE ACTIVITIES— SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING — Experience in working closely with international brands (such as Greenpeace, McDonald's, Bacardi, Lollapalooza and FNAC).Helped those clients to design and implement new technology solutions to optimize their internet campaings and running products or services, resolve critical issues in real time and help those business to optimize their processes using the internet based softwares. — PRODUCT MANAGEMENT — Experience in managing software products from the conception of the idea to market release phases. Drove product strategy and collaborated with several stakeholders from Sales, Creative Process, Engineering and Marketing, in addition to third party teams (e.g. Digital Media, Payment Systems, etc) to launch innovative products. — SOCIAL MEDIA AND EXTERNAL APIs INTEGRATION — Experience in connecting web and mobile apps with a huge variety of Social Networks and third-party APIs e.g.: Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. — PROJECT MANAGEMENT — Experience in leading multiple projects teams. Interviewed developers and trained them. Contributed to project estimation, resource allocation and quality reporting to clients. Employed agile software development using SCRUM techniques. — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT — Brainstormed with the technical and creation teams on future client needs. Developed the finest features for leading software products that were used by more than 3 million users over a period of about 1,5 ~ 2 years, including web-only applications and web-mobile integrated applications.

During my Masters degree I also worked at Mackenzie's Natural Computing Laboratory (LCoN - Laboratório de Computação Natural) At LcON I was researching in the field of Natural Computing, with special emphasis in biology inspired algorithms for combinatorial problem solving with high complexity and practical interest. During this period, I received a full scholarship from the FAPESP agency, one of the biggest public research institutions from Brazil. The main research project I worked on was an artificial life algorithm, inspired by the movements of flocks of birds, which was modified to be applied in Data Mining and Data Clustering.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Tuilux is a company that provides intelligent recommendation services to virtual environments, especially electronic commerce. Their business is to provide smart choices to the customers, making the buying experience something fascinating. The business model was designed so that the system only get revenue when it provides benefits for the clients (e.g. the e-commerce using it). Tuilux Recommender continuously learns about your customers and improves recommendations for the best results to your business.CORE ACTIVITIES— RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT — Brainstormed with the artificial intelligence team in order to design and optimize the algorithms that collect user data and uses it to learn about them, and after that make better recommendations over time. Wrote the code the run the designed artificial intelligence algorithm.— INTEGRATION — Experience in integrating the Tuilux webservices to e-commerces so that it would be able to collect the data besides making the recommendations.

Master'S, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Researcher at the Natural Computing Laboratory.

Bachelor, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Member of two Scientific Initiation programs on Operating Systems (2008 and 2009)Member of the Universidade Sem.