Summary
Gabriel Sant'anna is an associate engineer and computer scientist with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable systems at the intersection of embedded, distributed, and systems software. He has driven measurable production improvements—most notably a 5x throughput gain and 75% P99 latency reduction for Brazil’s digital signature timestamp platform—while coordinating zero-downtime OTA updates and hardening security policies. His background spans research-grade formal verification and performance work (including a peer-reviewed verification of WCET for Dijkstra’s token ring) to FPGA-accelerated video codec optimizations and highly concurrent infrastructure tooling at Meta. Now at Canonical, he brings a practical, evolution-minded approach to complex systems (echoed in his GitHub motto) that favors simple, working foundations that scale.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Exchange Embedded Systems and Connected Objects, Exchange Embedded Systems and Connected Objects at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble
Technical/Vocational Degree Electronics, Technical/Vocational Degree Electronics at IFSC - Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish