Gabriel Capella

About Me

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo (IME-USP). Uncompleted Master’s degree at the same institute, focusing on embedded device security.

Currently, I work at Meta on the Release Engineering team, helping deploy one of the largest monoliths in the industry.

Despite joking that I don’t know how to write a single line of code, I’ve worked with C, JavaScript (Node.js), Java, C++, PHP (Hack), Python, C#, SQL, Dart, and Ruby. Like most developers, I’ve also dealt with HTML, CSS, and the usual front-end suspects: Angular, Three.js, D3.js, Grunt, React, and more. Professionally, I’ve used tools like Docker, CoreOS, Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Prometheus, StatsD, AWS, GCP, and Kafka. This list is more a personal log than a brag sheet—what matters is not what a developer has touched, but their ability to learn.

Since I don’t use LinkedIn and I am distancing myself from social media, this is the best place to find up-to-date information about me. Feel free to drop me email.

Projects
Academic Background & Related Work

While my bachelor’s degree left little time for side projects, I was deeply involved in academic and extracurricular activities.

I served multiple times as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the following courses:

I was also an active member of the Hardware Livre USP group, contributing to various projects, organizing workshops, and giving talks. For my contributions, I received the Participation in Activities Incentive Award from the Computer Science department in 2017.

With funding from FAPESP, a leading Brazilian research foundation, I developed medical hardware for the phototherapy startup Bright.

I also helped organize the annual undergraduate Computer Science conference Encontro do BCC, taking part in its 7th, 8th, and 9th editions.

I concluded my degree with a thesis on remote attestation methods—techniques used to verify whether a device’s software has been tampered with remotely.

I completed the Computer Science program at IME-USP as the first in my class.

Courses & Certifications
Scuba Diving

With over 500 logged dives Countless dives along the Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and UK coasts. Certifications include:

Volunteer Work

I believe sharing knowledge and opportunity is one of life’s greatest purposes.

For two years, I volunteered as a teacher in the Janelas para o Futuro project, where I led classes focused on current events with historical context. In my final year, I became the lead student coordinator for the program, which served approximately 120 young students and involved over 20 volunteer instructors.

Currently, I’m not involved in any volunteer work due to time constraints, but I’m actively looking for new opportunities to contribute.

Professional Experience
Curiosities

If you’re still not satisfied, here’s my resume/CV — though it may be outdated