Gabriel Freire
Chief Marine Engineer at SpaceX
Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Freire is a naval architect and marine engineer with over a decade leading design and construction of high-performance leisure, commercial and military vessels, now serving as Chief Marine Engineer at SpaceX. He has driven projects end-to-end—from concept and detailed design to construction, commissioning and operation—across roles including Design Manager at L3 ASV and co-founder/technical director at a luxury yacht builder. His experience spans complex offshore EPC work (FPSO modules and loading tests) and innovative structural projects like a GRP geodesic VR center for Petrobras, reflecting both heavy-industry rigor and boutique craftmanship. Based in Miami Beach, he blends program management, commercial acumen and hands-on naval engineering to deliver technically robust, operationally ready platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado em Engenharia, Engenharia Naval e Oceânica, Bacharelado em Engenharia, Engenharia Naval e Oceânica at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
vscode9
visual-studio8
vscode-extension8
movie7
android7
projeto7
java6
python5
javascript5
json5
visual-studio-code5
react3
qmk3
open-source3
webscraping2
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gabrielfvale/scrappy
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
An artwork scraper featuring a Skyscraper backend. Built with LOVE2D for muOS.
Contributions:8 releases, 6 reviews, 7 PRs in 4 months
gabrielfvale/sigaapi
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:37 commits, 11 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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