Gabriel Cruz
P2P Engineer at Institute of Free Technology
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolGabriel Cruz is a peer-to-peer engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining resilient distributed systems, currently leading nim-libp2p development at the Institute of Free Technology. His background spans Protocol Labs, Riff.CC and Major League Hacking, with deep hands-on expertise in Rust, C, Go and Python and a focus on networking, security and reliability features like AutoTLS and AutoNAT. A Computer Science master’s candidate from ICMC–USP, he combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with strong empathy for maintainability and documentation, treating code as a long-lived conversation for future readers. Gabriel’s work balances research-grade systems engineering and community stewardship—reviewing external contributions, mentoring teams, and shipping production-ready open source. An avid CTF fan and self-described “trailing spaces serial killer,” he brings both curiosity and precise craftsmanship to security-sensitive, peer-to-peer challenges.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Université de Bretagne OccidentaleMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC) - USP
🇪🇸 español, 🇧🇷 portuguese, 🇫🇷 français, 🇺🇸 english
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Github Skills (200)
vim10
http-client10
nvim10
api10
json10
filecoin10
pentesting10
nodejs10
timer10
command-line10
python10
api-client10
ipfs10
rest-api10
httpie10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
gmelodie/cclock
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
CLI clock that divides time in 100, not 60
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year
clockcli
gmelodie/xcreep
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
📎 Simple wrapper to xclip in Go
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
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