Guilherme Akio Sakae
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorGuilherme Sakae is a Staff Backend Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems across startups and fast-growing products, currently focused on platform engineering at Perplexity. He combines hands-on backend expertise—from event-driven architectures and RabbitMQ to Python, Node.js and AWS—with a founder’s mindset honed while co-founding a consumer startup that reached thousands of users and national competition finals. Guilherme has led cross-team migrations and performance work at companies like Slack and Thinkific, improving throughput, reducing downtime, and introducing observability and modern stacks. Based in New York, he pairs technical leadership with active community involvement in local meetups and a lifelong interest in exploring advanced algorithms and computer science problems. An early web and mobile builder, he still brings the practical product-sense of a former solo-technical founder to platform-scale engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (59)
javascript10
windows10
linux10
nuxt10
full-stack10
vue10
js10
nodejs10
csr9
static-site-generator9
vue-framework9
scaffolding9
redux9
typescript9
styled-components9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
akiokio/django-geoposition
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 4 months
widgetpythondjangodjango-modelfield
akiokio/ReactSignupLoginComponent
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
The React SignupLogin Component is a drop in login/register/forgotPassword component to speed up development.
Contributions:6 releases, 119 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 8 months
reactsignup
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