Gabriel Farias

Experience

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  DICTUC SA

  May 1988 - Feb 1994

  System Engineer

  DICTUC is a university-owned company dedicated to the development and integration of technological solutions for the national industry,

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  Excelsys

  Mar 1994 - Jul 1997

  Software Engineering Manager

  Excelsys is a leading provider of web solutions for the Latin American financial services industry.

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  Sialing

  Aug 1997 - Jan 2001

  CTO, Founder

  Sialing develops more than 60 websites and transactional applications on a 3-year periodI developed and fostered customer loyalty with well know companies like: Sony Music, Mazda Chile, Isapre Colmena Golden Cross, among others

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  Telectronic

  Feb 2001 - Dec 2002

  Solutions and Services Manager

  Company dedicated to the development and implementation of voice telecommunications solutions. On the field of telephony and voice processing, Telectronic has integrated net solutions, Call Centers, applications, Help Desks, IVR applications, Voice processing data, solutions and equipments of data connectivity. The company also provides equipment and instruments for carrier applications and public access providers.

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  Motorola Chile and Argentina

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2006

  Software Development Manager

  Global Software Group (GSG) is the Motorola division responsible for high quality software development to be deployed in the various Motorola devices.I was responsible for 100 software developers organized in four programs, executing several projects, all of them complying with strict CMM-5 requirements (Argentina 2 years). Managed a team of 20 developers (Chile, 2 years)

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  ATD a CITIGROUP Company

  Feb 2007 - Jan 2010

  Senior Project Manager, PMO Lead

  Built the Project Management Office at ATD.

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  Citi

  Feb 2010 - Aug 2016

  ATD Head of Technology

  Lead of High Frequency Trading and Market Making ecosystem including Order Management System (OMS) and Market Data Distribution. System engineered and tested at over 20M orders per day.

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  Thesys Technologies, LLC

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

  Team Lead

  * Lead Front End Development Team. System implementing the user interface and backend services to configured, monitor, and operate the Thesys Matching Engine platform.* Full stack senior software developer: linux (Ubuntu 14+), c++ (11), ruby, javascript (node, angular).* Devise and execute a plan to improve product quality introducing a new architecture while keeping the system continuously integrated: * Refactor to use presentational and container components * Refactor to use Redux to decouple business logic from components * Deployed code generator to automatically export types built on c++ backend to javascript* Deployed significant improvement in areas such: * Quality Assurance: Introduced static type checker (Flow), test coverage analysis (Istanbul) * Team Coordination: Introduced stand-up meetings, weekly reports, monthly technology roadmap reviews Show less

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  Foursquare

  Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

  Senior Engineering Manager

  Engineering manager for Foursquare Pilgrim Modeling and Ranking. Managed and developed an engineering and datascience team of 10 team members

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  Google

  Mar 2020 - Mar 2022

  Site Reliability Engineering Manager
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  LinkedIn

  Apr 2022 - Feb 2024

  Site Reliability Engineering Manager