Gabriel Simoes

About Me


Education
Aug 2018 — May 2022
University of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN
  • Bachelor of Science | Major: Computer Science
  • GPA: 4.0 | Dean's Honor List
  • Initiating a research project in Natural Language Processing in Fall 2020.
Work Experience
Summer 2020
Palantir TechnologiesRemote / Palo Alto, CA — Software Engineer Intern
  • Worked on the development of a multi-service product with thousands of frequent users. Focused on the Java-based back-end, but also worked on the front-end and got exposed to many other technologies.
  • Iterated with designers, back-end and front-end developers based on user feedback to develop and ship a number of user-facing features and performance improvements.
  • Achieved constant collaboration by quickly planning and presenting ideas to the team.
Summer 2019
BTG PactualSão Paulo, Brazil — IT Summer Analyst
  • Worked on the development of a large financial valuation application.
  • Responsible for developing a series of features visible to users, directly impacting user experience.
  • Identified algorithmic and database optimizations, reducing a given calculation's execution time and memory usage in up to 50% and making other slow operations instantaneous to the user.
  • Refactored a large grid system in C#/WinForms critical to the application's maintenance, while preserving full backward compatibility, reducing a 15000-line module by 56%.
Spring 2019 — Present
Academic Computing OperationsNotre Dame, IN — Student Assistant
  • Responsible for operating and maintaining university academic computing infrastructure, such as computer labs, clusters and printing system.
  • Produced and refactored programs in Python and Perl used in daily operations and monitoring.
Technical Skills

Data analysis and statistics: Python (numpy, pandas, tensorflow, scraping, matplotlib), SQL

Systems programming: C/C++, Go, Python, Bash

Back-end development: HTTP, microservices architechture, business logic, data processing, and testing using Java, C#/.NET, Go, SQL

Front-end development: back-end integration using Javascript, HTML, CSS

Other technologies: Linux, Git, Agile Methods, Clojure, Docker, LaTeX

Honors & Awards
2019
AT&T Irish Hacks Hackathon 2019University of Notre Dame
PWC Prize for Best Societal Impact
2018
AT&T Irish Hacks Hackathon 2018University of Notre Dame
Pariveda Solutions Prize for Best Underclassmen-led Project
2018
30th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)Japan
  • Performance: Silver Medalist
  • Most prestigious international Computer Science competition for High School students.
2017
29th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)Iran
Performance: 197th out of 300 competitors
2017 — 2018
Ibero-American Olympiad in Informatics (CIIC) 2017 and 2018
Performance: Twice Gold Medalist