Frederico Gonçalves is a Solver Engineer with 11 years of professional experience combining academic rigor—PhD work on database join ordering and a master’s on scheduling—with hands-on software engineering across Java/JEE, Spring/Micronaut, modern front-end frameworks, and cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes and Rancher. He has sustained long-term operational responsibility for critical university systems while also building scalable integrations and improving architecture at startups like Etleap. Comfortable across the stack, he blends algorithmic problem-solving from his research background with pragmatic Agile delivery and CI/CD practices. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he brings a rare mix of production operations expertise and formal optimization knowledge that helps turn complex query and scheduling problems into performant, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate of Engineering, Database query join ordering problem, Doctorate of Engineering, Database query join ordering problem at Federal University of Belo Horizonte
B.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at Federal University of Ouro Preto
Master of Mathematical Modeling and Computing, Single machine scheduling problem, Master of Mathematical Modeling and Computing, Single machine scheduling problem at Federal Center of Technological Education of Minas Gerais
Get started with Timefold quickstarts here. Timefold is the successor of OptaPlanner, by the OptaPlanner team. Optimize the vehicle routing problem, employee rostering, task assignment, maintenance scheduling and other planning problems
Contributions:58 PRs, 427 pushes, 190 branches in 1 year 3 months
The open source AI solver. Timefold is the successor of OptaPlanner, by the OptaPlanner team. Optimize the vehicle routing problem, employee rostering, task assignment, maintenance scheduling and other planning problems
Contributions:16 releases, 1 review, 23 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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