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Gustavo Soares

@gustavosoares

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Generalist software engineer focused on developer productivity, hardware–software integration, and elegant tooling.

France

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What I'm looking for

I seek a collaborative role building developer productivity tools or hardware–software systems, focused on impactful, maintainable engineering and growth.

I am a generalist software engineer passionate about collaborating with teammates to solve complex problems using modern tools. I specialize in building developer productivity tools and improving hardware–software interaction, delivering performance, maintainability and testability.

My experience includes improving and maintaining Network-On-Chip verification toolchains, implementing language server features for an internal HDL, and designing/refactoring backend event-driven microservices. I graduated top of my class in Computer Engineering and hold a French double-degree in engineering.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer

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Qualcomm

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Maintain and improve a Python/C++ toolchain for Network-on-Chip hardware design and verification, delivering performance improvements, new features, packaging, and documentation while avoiding regressions in legacy tooling.

Python C++Pybind11 Performance Optimization Tooling Packaging Documentation Debugging

Software Engineer Intern

Vulcanet

Designed and refactored backend event-driven microservices for a social network aggregator and chat manager, improving performance and scalability across REST, WebSockets, and GraphQL services.

fastAPI Django Node REST WebSockets GraphQL Relational Databases CI CD Performance Optimization

Software Engineer Intern

Arm

Implemented a Language Server Protocol for an internal hardware description language, adding diagnostics, go-to-definition, auto-completion, and signature help using parsers, lexers, and TypeScript tooling.

Language Server Protocol Python TypeScript Parsers Jinja Developer Tools

Software Engineer Intern

Qualcomm

Improved a randomized hardware-configuration generator for NoC verification, achieving over 50% performance gains and implemented a more extensible, testable generator in Python and C++.

Python C++Optimization Performance Profiling

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Activities and societies: Undergraduate research project at the Laboratory of Signal Processing for Communications (2 years) focusing on machine learning for visual cortex signal command identification.

Completed a 5-year Computer Engineering degree with specialization in Computer Architecture and Automation; graduated first in class.