Gabriel Farias
Software Engineer
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Farias is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building high-performance systems and leading teams across startups and global enterprises. He has managed site reliability and engineering teams at Google and LinkedIn, led Pilgrim Modeling and Ranking at Foursquare, and drove high-frequency trading infrastructure at Citi supporting tens of millions of orders per day. Equally comfortable in hands-on full‑stack development and program-level execution, he has modernized architectures, introduced CI/QA practices, and scaled teams of 10–100 across distributed environments. Based in Chapel Hill, NC, he pairs an electrical engineering background and an MBA with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach to shipping reliable, production-grade software. Notably, his career blends financial-grade throughput engineering with product-facing frontend and data science collaborations, reflecting rare cross-domain fluency.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Engineer, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Professional Engineer, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileMBA, Business Administration, MBA, Business Administration at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
wamp-protocol6
wamp4
golang3
messaging3
router2
go1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GFariasR/jaybeams
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:56 PRs, 143 pushes, 37 branches in 4 months
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GFariasR/P01Concurrency
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 5 months
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