Gonçalo Pascoal
Software Developer at Vestas
Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGonçalo Pascoal is a software developer based in Porto with 10 years of experience, currently driving a major architectural redesign of Vestas’s Tower Structural Design Tool to boost modularity, testability and auditability. He holds an M.Sc. in Informatics & Computing Engineering from FEUP, where his thesis applied deep reinforcement learning to optimize compilation of quantum algorithms for realistic architectures. His strengths lie in algorithms, low-level and systems programming, distributed systems, and performance-critical software, and he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with strong organizational habits. At Vestas he has delivered full-stack simulation features, CI/CD automation, and a full rewrite of core business logic with improved test coverage and a flexible auditing system for structural calculations. A hobbyist game developer with an eye for game design, he brings creative thinking to technical challenges and a track record of academic distinction.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics and Computing Engineering, 19.23 / 20, Master's degree, Informatics and Computing Engineering, 19.23 / 20 at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (41)
simulation10
simulation-framework10
agent-based-modeling10
reinforcement-learning10
gis10
mesa10
agent-based-simulation10
optimization10
parallel9
pytorch9
java9
cellular-automata9
python9
large-language-models9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FEUP-ESOF-2020-21/open-cx-t6g4-the-five-engineers
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
open-cx-t6g4-the-five-engineers created by GitHub Classroom
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 119 commits in 1 month
fivereactengineersgithub-classroom
GoncaloPascoal/goncalopascoal.github.io
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
My personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
ruby
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