Gilvanei Gregório

Gilvanei Gregório

Senior Backend Engineer

Gilvanei Gregório is a senior backend engineer from Brazil with more than a decade of experience building scalable systems in Python and Java, with a focus on cloud-native architectures, API development and LLM applications. He holds a graduate degree in software engineering from Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI) and has worked with BEON.tech since 2022. He writes about RAG, becoming an AI engineer, and performance testing with k6.

3 Articles
10 Years in the industry

Areas of Expertise

PythonFastAPIDjangoPostgreSQLRedisRabbitMQDockerKubernetesAWSGCPGitHub ActionsLLMsOpenAILangChain

Education

Graduate degree in Computer Software Engineering from Universidade do Vale do Itajaí. Bachelor’s degree in Digital Games / Computer Games and Programming Skills from Universidade do Vale do Itajaí.

Articles by Gilvanei Gregório

Developer Careers

How to Become an AI Engineer: A Real Project

AI is revolutionizing industries across the globe, creating unprecedented demand for professionals who can bridge the gap between theoretical machine learning and practical software engineering. Finding skilled software engineers or AI specialists individually is challenging enough—finding someone with strong foundations in both fields is even more difficult. That’s why BEON.tech created a specialized six-month program…

Gilvanei Gregório Apr 17, 2025 7 min read
AI for Software Development

What Is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

In today’s fast-moving digital age, generative AI is truly game-changing. Retrieval Augmented Generation, or RAG, is at the forefront of this innovation, making AI applications smarter by connecting advanced AI models with your source data to generate responses using this knowledge base. Now, the big question: how does it work? In this post, I’ll break…

Gilvanei Gregório Nov 19, 2024 5 min read
Software Engineering

Performance Testing With k6: A Deep Dive

Testing the reliability and performance of your systems and catching performance regressions and problems earlier is not an easy test. Monitoring and observability tools can give you an idea of some of these performance issues, but only after it happens. There’s the option of providing a huge amount of resources to scale your application, but…

Gilvanei Gregório Jul 27, 2023 3 min read
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