Gabriel Alves

Owned end-to-end security and reliability improvements on a production Django app with a fully documented, production-deployed feature. Identified and fixed a critical flaw in box encryption by correcting the use of symmetric vs asymmetric encryption. Completed a stubbed password health/breach-detection feature and shipped it to production. Built the company’s first automated test infrastructure from scratch (Pytest + Playwright/TypeScript), defining a reusable testing methodology and structure reused across two production projects. Improved security and reliability (including MFA/recovery flows), backend logic, data handling, and UI/UX, including delivering a reactive filter redesign that removed full page reloads, with handover and team enablement by running walkthroughs for continued adoption.

Owned end-to-end security and reliability work on an undocumented Django production app. Identified and fixed a critical issue related to box encryption using symmetric instead of asymmetric cryptography, and completed a stubbed password health/breach-detection feature to production. Built the company’s first automated testing infrastructure from scratch (Pytest + Playwright with TypeScript), defining a reusable testing methodology and structure adopted across two production projects. Delivered full-stack improvements across security (MFA/recovery flows), backend logic, data handling, and UI/UX, including proposing and driving a reactive filter redesign to remove full page reloads; worked independently and delivered clean handover.