Bio
Gustavo acquired a taste for video games at the age of 11, when his dad bought a Commodore 64. He taught himself how to program because he wanted to build his own games. He quickly outgrew the Commodore, and by the age of 17, he was already learning Linux. He enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires for Electronic Engineering and started his first business while still in college, with two other friends, doing some software development, server maintenance and putting together PCs.
He later got a job developing software for crisis management, at a government institute that worked in research for Defense. During this period, he switched careers and began studying Computer Sciences. There he met Pablo Brusco, who was at Manas at the time, and a little while later, in 2013, Gustavo joined the team. Nowadays, in addition to being in charge of the designing and implementation of one of our soon-to-be-released products, mentors PEs of all the teams, both technically and personally, and does a bit of code review when a third opinion is needed.
In his spare time, he enjoys acrobatics training, he’s a big big fan of sci-fi and, of course, still plays a lot of video games.
Last year’s activity
Projects
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SMS Gateway
1 /3 Client Nuntium is an open-source development created for InSTEDD, which emerged as a common factor from multiple applications which needed to exchange text messages, mails, tweets or any other kind of messages. 2 /3 Approach Nuntium takes care o... -
Connecting trucks with cargo
1 /5 Client Avancargo is an Argentinean company who seeks to optimize land transport in Latin America, by facilitating the process of finding and booking cargo vehicles through a platform that puts together supply and demand in one place, thus simpli... -
Service location optimization
1 /5 Client PlanWise is a tool developed by Concern’s Innovations initiative, in partnership with InSTEDD. It helps planners and responders in low-resources settings see how they can serve as many people as possible, as cost-effectively as they can,... -
Debugging zero-knowledge proof blockchains
1 /6 Partner Aztec is building a groundbreaking blockchain platform that prioritizes privacy by design. Their goal is to enable secure, private transactions without exposing user identities or transaction details. To achieve this, Aztec employs Zero-... -
Connected Diagnostics
1 /6 Client CDx (Connected Diagnostics initiative) is a collaborative initiative between InSTEDD and FIND that seeks to use diagnostic data to improve healthcare delivery, outbreak detection and response, and health systems management, working also a... -
Maximizing operation rooms utilization in healthcare
1 /4 Client Wúru is a health-analytics provider, whose platform leverages data and algorithms to enhance the productivity of healthcare providers and create better experiences for patients. Founded in 2019 and led by Luciano Tourn, their platform fee... -
Helping cancer patients navigate their treatment
1 /4 Client The Moores Cancer Center wanted to enhance the experience of cancer patients as they go through their journey from diagnosis to treatment, and eventually recovery. 2 /4 Requirements & Context Patient navigation services have existed for a... -
Technology that thinks like a fashion editor
1 /5 Client Everywear is the brainchild of Brandon Holley, and it’s self-defined as the first B2B technology platform to bring editorial authority to e-commerce, through personalized recommendations. What does that mean? In their CEO & founder’s own... -
Connected communities
1 /3 Client LocalBuzz is a social media company that seeks to bring people, businesses, and communities together via user-generated video content. They propose a novel way for users to find a new restaurant, a great new band to see, or an experience... -
Remote-controlled lighting
1 /4 Client Evolux is a chilean company specialized in efficient lighting using LED technology. They provide lighting fixtures and other equipment to various industries throughout Chile. 2 /4 Requirements & Context As a service to their clients in th... -
Using Crystal to power the IOU economy
1 /5 Client Sikoba is an IOU (“I owe you”) platform that automates the creation, tracking and finally clearing of debt between its users. While Sikoba can be used in a wide array of settings, like business to business contracts and clearings, its des... -
Chatbot builder
1 /5 Client AIDA was developed by Manas.Tech and InSTEDD, in collaboration with mVAM, an innovative team at the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, and thanks to a grant from the Cisco Foundation and additional support... -
Tracking Health Status
1 /4 Client Health Check was developed in partnership with InSTEDD for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine of the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), to keep track of the wellbeing of federal employees that were traveling fro... -
Head-up display for spacesuit
1 /5 Client The Austrian Space Forum, in Innsbruck, defines itself as a network of space professionals and people with a passion for space. One of its members, Dr. Gernot Groomer, has had a lifelong dream: finding life in outer space. Not too ambitio... -
Real time gaming
1 /4 Concept Code Games is a real time programming game where you compete against other players by coding the behaviour of a space ship. The programming language is easy to learn and the game is super fun. Subscribe to one of our tournaments and comp... -
Diagnostics Visualization
1 /4 Client Cepheid is a worldwide molecular diagnostics company which manufactures, among others, the GeneXpert family of systems: accurate yet easy-to-use machines which automate testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases. Thanks to the agile... -
SMS Polls
1 /3 Client Developed as part of InSTEDD’s platform tools, Pollit allows the user to easily define a questionnaire composed of free text, numeric or multiple choice questions, by importing an online Google Form. By supplying a list of mobile phones t... -
SMS App Builder
1 /3 Client mBuilder, which we developed for InSTEDD, is a free and open source tool that you can use to build scalable SMS applications without any programming knowledge. 2 /3 Approach mBuilder works in a very intuitive way. To create an application... -
Disaster Response
1 /4 Client Watchfire was developed with InSTEDD for assisting the American Red Cross in improving their community level disaster response in the San Francisco Bay Area. 2 /4 Approach After working together with the Red Cross in identifying potential...