# Henrique Gontijo

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Mill Valley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/henriquegontijo

Software Engineer with several years of experience in software development, architecture, continuous delivery, configuration management and infrastructure automation & management.

Specialties:
Process/Practices: DevOps • Tools • Continuous Delivery • Software Development & Architecture
Languages: Java • Golang • Ruby • HTML • JavaScript • Shell Script
 
Contact information: henrique@gontijo.org

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer, DevOps @ Guidewire Software
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Mateo, California, United States

### Sr. DevOps Engineer @ Guidewire Software
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Foster City, CA

### CE Productivity Engineer / Sr. MTS @ VMware
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA
• Implemented a CI Pipeline using Perforce, VMware proprietary Build & CI tools and Ruby rbvmomi (VMware vSphere API) to automate the deployment and testing of web applications
• Implemented a CI Pipeline using Git, Gerrit, Jenkins to automate the process of code review, build, deployment, testing, branch merging and delivery
• Development of a pipeline dashboard based on AngularJS, Bootstrap, Spring 4, Tomcat. This dashboard provides a single pane of glass to visualize the overall development process, status of code review, build & tests results and code coverage. The dashboard provides REST APIs allowing integration with 3rd party systems
• Designed and built Docker images and container deployment for hosting web based applications.

### Continuous Integration Engineer @ Avenue Code
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
Continuous Integration Engineer for both internal and international projects. I bring projects to comply with the latest Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices.

• Developed a Validation Tool using Java to automate sanity checks within applications to provide quick feedbacks to development teams
• Enhance Delivery Pipeline (Jenkins) with Ruby to allow easy access to application logs and property files for Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Automate delivery steps using Rake, Ruby and Shell Script - to minimize manual intervention
• Automate artifacts releasing with Maven for a continuous flow to deliver artifacts
• Developed Unit, Functional and Integration Tests with Cucumber, Selenium, Fitnesse, JUnit and RSpec to improve the overall code quality
• Automate execution of security tests - IBM AppScan using Shell Script and Rest API

### Continuous Integration Engineer @ Avenue Code / Macy's
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
Software Consultant for Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Build Deployment Automation, Configuration Management, Test Automation and Infrastructure Automation. Member of the Continuous Delivery team to automate manual deployment and certification process, to increase application quality and feature delivery.

• Implement Continuous Delivery Solutions (Automated Testing and Deployment Automation) to standardize delivery pipeline for development
• Improved the infrastructure allowing the development team in Brazil to have faster access to Subversion repositories in USA. The solution was implemented using Subversion Proxy and Jenkins.

### Systems Consultant @ VEGA DO SUL
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
• Architecture Consultant of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System
• Designed and implemented new Single Sign-On (SSO) solution

### Software Engineer @ Ci&T
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
Granted an individual award for high performance, an annual prize given to outstanding employees.  I also won the first prize on HackDay – Greater Innovation Project: Mobile Deployment based on Bluetooth Invitation

• Lead for system architecture (JEE), Application Server Administration (Oracle AS) and database modeling, architecture and administration (Oracle)
• Led a migration/application upgrade project - Oracle Application Server (Oracle r2 to r3). Responsible for risk assessment, requirement analysis and configuration management to ensure successful launch to updated application server
• Software Configuration Management in Subversion - Branching and merging strategies. Continuous Integration (Jenkins) and Quality Management (Sonar) for JEE System to improve code quality and continuous release 
• Setup System Integration for a Logistic and Transportation System using JAX-WS Web services 
• Developed a Training Management System (JEE/Web Platform) using the Struts Framework for Petrobrás - largest oil company in Brazil

### Systems Analyst @ Nextech
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Belo Horizonte
• Developed ECM/Workflow systems for multiple clients - Vale, Petrobrás, Usiminas, Acesita, CST, Cenibra and Braskem. Support for ECM Systems.  Responsible for systems release and deployment.


## Education
### Bachelor in Computer Science
PUC Minas


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hgontijo

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Last updated: 2026-04-12