Gabriel Menezes
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Chief Executive Officer
Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Chief Executive OfficerOctane AIMar 2026 - Current (5 months)- Chief Technology OfficerOctane AIAug 2024 - Mar 2026 (1 year 8 months)Owned engineering, infrastructure, and technical strategy across all Octane AI products. • Drove adoption of AI tools across engineering workflows, measurably improving team throughput • Led SOC 2 compliance initiative, implementing security frameworks across the organization
- Director of EngineeringOctane AIMay 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 4 months)Built and scaled the engineering team across backend, infrastructure, and product development. • Managed a distributed, internationally remote engineering team across multiple time zones • Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by over 20% through architecture optimization and resource consolidation • Collaborated closely with leadership and product teams to improve development processes and delivery cadence • Led complex technical designs for major product features and system-level changes • Improved data lake accessibility and led data migration efforts to PostgreSQL
- Senior Backend EngineerPlaystackNov 2020 - Jul 2021 (9 months)Senior backend engineer on Snatch (later renamed Dibs), an augmented reality mobile game where players hunted for geo-located parcels containing real-world prizes from brand partners. The game's pilot drove over 500K retail store check-ins. • Built and maintained the backend API using GraphQL and MongoDB, powering real-time geolocation gameplay, parcel collection, and player interactions • Developed and optimized geospatial search with Elasticsearch for location-based parcel discovery at scale • Contributed to a fully asynchronous Python backend on Tornado and asyncio, handling high-concurrency mobile traffic with caching and bulk operations • Worked across AWS infrastructure and helped maintain CI/CD pipelines with Docker and Jenkins • Con
- Technical Lead & DevOps SpecialistOctane AIJul 2021 - May 2022 (11 months)Full-stack engineer working across a custom Python backend and React frontend, owning both product features and infrastructure. • Introduced Docker containerization to the project and improved CI/CD pipelines for faster, more reliable deployments • Built major integration connectors powering data flow between Octane AI and third-party platforms • Owned and managed a complex 6-node Redis cluster with high availability • Operated and optimized multi-terabyte DynamoDB databases supporting high-throughput workloads • Responsible for hiring international engineering talent, expanding the team's global footprint • Supported product development across the full stack
- QChief Technology OfficerQueepiJan 2018 - Aug 2020 (2 years 8 months)Founding partner of an e-learning startup focused on automated question generation and mastery through intensive practice. Led a cross-functional team of 2 developers and 5 math educators. • Built a custom math question editor engine enabling non-technical teachers to author dynamic math questions in Lua via a Vue.js interface — powered by an extensive C++/Lua math library with 100s of functions • Designed a geometric drawing system and a LaTeX-based expression rendering engine integrated into the question editor • Developed the company's mobile-first web application using Vue.js and PHP (Symfony 5) • Containerized all systems with Docker, orchestrated infrastructure on Kubernetes (AWS EKS), and built a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins
- TBackend DeveloperTraça Livraria e SeboJan 2010 - Jan 2018 (8 years 1 month)Backend developer at Brazil's largest online retailer of used books. Maintained and modernized a large legacy system spanning book registration, finance, HR, and logistics. • Ported the entire system from Perl to PHP and Python • Built a computer vision system for book identification by cover photo using a custom OpenCV algorithm • Created a Python-based order and inventory sync system across Amazon and Estante Virtual marketplaces • Developed an online book price search engine and an automatic pricing system based on competitor data • Managed infrastructure of 6 servers (4 physical, 2 AWS-hosted)
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- Bachelor's degree, Computer SciencePontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do SulJan 2014 - Jan 2016 (2 years 1 month)dropped out