Gabriel Candal
Software Engineer at Freelance
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Candal is a hands-on software engineer and engineering manager with 11 years of experience building distributed, high-performance systems across finance, payments, and e-commerce. He has led teams end-to-end—founding processes and remote-first practices, establishing CI/CD and in-house QA frameworks, and mentoring engineers from junior hires to managers. Technically fluent across Rust, Java/Scala, Python, and modern JS stacks, he has shipped PCI-compliant key management, real-time fraud detection components, and low-latency image-processing pipelines. As a freelance engineer he now focuses on trading, payments and fraud systems, applying expertise in Kafka, observability, and distributed databases to production-critical problems. Notably, he thrives in transformation phases where building repeatable delivery patterns and SDKs turns ad-hoc engineering into scalable products. Although open to sharing insights, he is currently not available for new roles.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Informatics and Computing Engineering, Master's degree Informatics and Computing Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
957reputation
43kreached
37answers
27questions
apache-flink
top-5%
Github Skills (137)
python10
vanilla-javascript10
animation10
video-processing10
html-parser10
vue-datepicker10
sdk10
ffmpeg10
video-editing10
vue10
editing10
gif10
shared9
testing9
parser9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gcandal/gcandal.github.io
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
cityindex/blockly-generator-csharp
Apr 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:4 PRs in 3 years 2 months
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