Welcoming Gabriel Miranda, our new Software Engineer

We’re excited to share that Gabriel Miranda is joining Resend!

Gabriel has been a long-time contributor to our open source projects, being key on the evolution of React Email. Since version 2, he’s helped shape the project with features, improvements, and countless bug fixes.

Now, we’re excited to have him officially onboard to keep pushing our open source projects forward.

How did you get into software?

My father was always a programmer, he ran a very small company that sold a software for small stores to send invoices and other things written in Delphi at the time. I remember that his office was also my bedroom, so I slept seeing and hearing him program many times. At eight, I wrote my first line of code when trying to make games in Roblox with Lua.

Why are you at Resend?

Since when I first learned about Resend I’ve always loved their work, the care they put into everything, the color pallete they choose for their website - all of it truly fits in what I can truly say I love.

Where do you find #inspiration?

I find inspiration in nature, in other people’s work, in conversations, in music and mostly, in my own failures. Most times, inspiration comes to me when I just build something and go from there, but the starting point always has other inspirations.

If you weren't programming, what would you be doing?

I would probably be doing Number Theory research. I truly love math, and I did a lot of it independently as well.

What does your desktop/home screen look like?

Favorite tool?

Has to be vim, or vi if we’re being technical. The idea for it, the constraints at the time of its conception, and the way it endured time up until now, as a hard complete editor to use today, in a way that made independent people maintain it truly inspires me.

Favorite hotkey?

CTRL-U and CTRL-D on vim, it jumps your screen’s amount of lines up or down, respectively. Definitely something I miss a lot when editing a large piece of text anywhere else.

Favorite place to visit?

A coffee shop in an Arts Center from the city I live in. It has the best waffles I’ve ever eaten in my life!

Advice for ambitious software engineers?

The main thing is putting love into your work. Most people will only do the bare minimum, and if that even. The single other most important thing I feel is having strong morals.