Gabriel Cruz
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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RockstarGabriel Cruz is a peer-to-peer engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining resilient distributed systems, currently leading nim-libp2p development at the Institute of Free Technology. His background spans Protocol Labs, Riff.CC and Major League Hacking, with deep hands-on expertise in Rust, C, Go and Python and a focus on networking, security and reliability features like AutoTLS and AutoNAT. A Computer Science master’s candidate from ICMC–USP, he combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with strong empathy for maintainability and documentation, treating code as a long-lived conversation for future readers. Gabriel’s work balances research-grade systems engineering and community stewardship—reviewing external contributions, mentoring teams, and shipping production-ready open source. An avid CTF fan and self-described “trailing spaces serial killer,” he brings both curiosity and precise craftsmanship to security-sensitive, peer-to-peer challenges.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
421reputation
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Github Skills (200)
vim10
http-client10
linked-list10
nvim10
go-testing10
pattern10
api10
json10
libp2p10
filecoin10
command-line10
python10
api-client10
ipfs10
rest-api10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
gmelodie/silentMoire
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Moiré pattern denoiser for screen pictures
Contributions:1 review, 31 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
patterndenoiserpicturesimage-processingdenoising
gmelodie/awesome-wordlists
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
A curated list of wordlists for bruteforcing and fuzzing
Contributions:3 reviews, 22 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 10 months
fuzzingbrute-forcewordlist
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