Summary
Gabe Richard is a senior software engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario with seven to eight years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and engineering teams. He has a track record of cutting costs and latency—e.g., designing distributed AWS pipelines that reduced compute time 99% and refactoring APIs and storage to achieve multi‑fold performance and storage improvements. Comfortable across backend, cloud and ML stacks, he has shipped end-to-end products from mobile MVPs to algorithmic trading backtests, using Python, Docker, AWS/GCP, PyTorch and modern CI/CD. Gabe’s background in mechanical engineering and early career automation work gives him a pragmatic systems mindset and strong data-driven optimization instincts. He’s motivated by turning manual research and spreadsheets into reproducible, scalable workflows that accelerate decision-making.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Waterloo Collegiate Institute
Master of Engineering Software Engineering, Master of Engineering Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Romanian, Hungarian, Spanish