Gustavo Fontes

Gustavo Fontes is a skilled Software Engineer currently working at BTG Pactual since July 2021, focusing on Electronic Trading. Responsibilities include designing and implementing horizontally scalable microservices for market data processing and developing REST and WebSocket APIs for real-time and historical financial market data. Prior experience includes a role as a Jr Software Engineer at BTG Pactual, where Gustavo developed and maintained APIs using JavaScript and Python, and built data pipelines with Kafka and AirFlow. Gustavo's earlier position as a Jr Data Scientist at QFlash involved creating an OCR-based document processing system to automate customer onboarding. Additionally, experience as a researcher at Universidade de São Paulo included work on LSTM recurrent neural networks for time series forecasting. Gustavo is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Univesp Oficial and holds a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from USP. Skills include Python, AWS RDS, and AWS Textract.