Bridging communication between the technical team and high level executives.
6+ years of success as Head of Software Engineering with the global leader in the development of Secure Electronic Voting solutions.
Led the creation of a worldwide market-leading secure voting software, and created a team which has successfully delivered hundreds of democracy innovation projects in Europe, the Americas, Australia, Africa, India and the Middle East.
Starting with less than 10 software engineers located in Barcelona, grew the team to include over 80 professionals located in 3 different software labs in Lima, Athens, and Barcelona.
Established a Software Quality Assurance team and a software development process that allowed delivering all projects with no bugs or security issues
Skills:
■ Mission critical software delivery
■ Team management and staffing
■ Partners management
■ Solutions architecture
■ Low level coding
■ Software development management
■ Software Quality assurance
Technologies:
■ Cross platform C/C++
■ J2EE
■ PKI/Cryptography
■ RESTFul APIs
■ JavaScript/AngularJS
■ Android/iOS
■ Oracle Database
■ SQL
■ VB.NET
■ Ruby
■ Perl
■ Erlang
Head of Software Engineering @ Lead the development of scalable mission critical web voting applications and mobile clients, using technologies such as J2EE, Ruby, Python, .NET, JavaScript or AngularJS.
■ Manage the development of the company software products on time and with required quality.
■ Lead the Software Architecture design process of our secure cloud voting applications.
■ Create and lead top level SQA team and processes
■ Research and implement new technologies.
■ Manage operations support of mission critical production environments.
■ Complete hands-on coding tasks.
■ Collaborate with the Pre-Sales Department in creating proposals.
■ Implement cryptography protocols and security measures.
■ Integrate with multiple providers and partners to provide electoral data for our customers. From October 2007 to Present (8 years 1 month) BarcelonaSoftware Development Manager @ ■ Led a small teams of software engineers to successfully implement mission critical voting projects for governments around the world.
■ Completed development tasks of application level cryptography component that guarantees the same security and confidentiality levels for Internet voting as regular elections do.
■ Completed Java, C++ multi-platform development tasks using OSS libraries like ACE, OpenSSL, boost, libodbc++, Bouncy Castle.
■ Used cryptography standards such as PKCS, X509 and related RFCs OSS implementations. From March 2004 to September 2007 (3 years 7 months) Teacher @ Teacher of J2EE, J2SE and SQL Server. From March 2003 to September 2006 (3 years 7 months) Software Engineer @ ■ Used Visual C++ and Visual Basic to develop cryptography components for remote digital signature and authentication.
■ Used J2EE and PDF digital signature for the detailed design and development of Validation Authority for the Catalan government PKI.
■ Parsed and extracted data from semi-structured Postscript printouts of invoices using AI techniques From September 2002 to March 2004 (1 year 7 months) Software Engineer @ Software engineer, Client/Server ERP in Visual Basic and SQL Server. Implementation of features, research, testing, customer support. From April 1998 to August 2002 (4 years 5 months) Professor's assistant @ I've been a teacher of Operating Systems, Project Management and Data Organization at University of Buenos Aires. From March 1998 to August 2002 (4 years 6 months) Freelance Software Engineer and Architect @ Demonstrated hands-on programming skills using OpenSSL, Firebreath (Objective C and C++), Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, and Java to develop and implement applications for a number of clients. Industries served included agriculture, medicine, law, banking and education. Projects included:
■ Secure coupon printer with Firebreath using ObjectiveC, C++, PHP and OpenSSL.
■ Using Java to develop an accessible educational tool, JClic (view sample).
■ ERP for Disco Ahold supermarkets in Argentina with VB and SQL Server.
■ Application for on-line transference of medical history of patients to ambulances using VB. From April 2001 to March 2002 (1 year)
Master in International Business, Marketing and Economics @ La Salle Business Engineering School (Barcelona) From 2009 to 2010 Licenciado en Análisis de Sistemas (Bachelor degree in CS), Computer Science @ Universidad de Buenos Aires From 1996 to 2000 Gabriel Dos Santos Davila is skilled in: Software Development, Software Engineering, Java, Java Enterprise Edition, Software Design, C++, Architecture, Cryptography, Project Management, Web Services, Linux, Multicultural Team..., Programming, Open Source, MySQL, Eclipse, Cloud Computing, SDLC, Scrum, Testing, Security, Distributed Systems, Software Quality..., Web Security, Web Development, Mobile Development, Functional Analysis, Cross-platform..., Software Factory..., Cross-browser..., Visual Basic, C#, .NET Development, Server Software, Software Architecture, Embedded Software, Embedded Linux, Linux Server, SQL Server, Oracle Database, iPhone Application..., Android Development, Blackberry Application..., Service Oriented..., .NET, ACE, Boost C++, Oracle, Internet Security, Mobile Applications