Summary
Renan Gurgel is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of hands-on experience building and scaling backend systems, primarily in Ruby on Rails, from Ceará, Brazil. He grew through every engineering rung at Agenda Edu—from software engineer to CTO—shaping operations, background job architectures, deployment scripts, and monitoring across AWS-hosted instances. Known for combining developer-first management with pragmatic technical ownership, he often acts as “a developer caring for other developers,” hiring and mentoring teams in high-growth startup environments. His GitHub bio hints at resilience and practical wisdom earned through iteration, and his long tenure at a single fast-scaling company shows uncommon depth in product-focused engineering leadership.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Estadual do Ceará
English, Portuguese