Gabriel Windlin

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science · Winterthur

• Curriculum: Algorithms & Data Structures, Analysis, Discrete Mathematics, Systems.

Driverless Software Engineer · Winterthur

• Developing the communication bridge between the Driverless Control Unit (DCU) and the Vehicle Control Unit (VCU) enabling autonomous driving on the Formula Student race car.
• Engineering real-time data translation across ROS, Zephyr RTOS, Cyphal, and CAN bus protocols between autonomous compute nodes and vehicle actuators.

Backend Engineer & Co-Founder · Zürich

• Architected a low-latency GraphQL service in Rust (Axum, async-graphql, SQLx/PostgreSQL), implementing rate-limiting, tiered workspace auth, and deterministic validation pipelines.
• Built a document-ingestion and semantic retrieval pipeline that parses unstructured brand guidelines into structured, queryable rule graphs.
• Engineered a real-time compliance evaluation engine combining embedding-based retrieval with strict constraint checks, ensuring generative AI models operate within verified bounds at sub-second speeds.

Software Developer · Hinwil

• Building an internal engineering platform unifying engineering tools via a FastAPI backend, reusable Python toolkits, and a Next.js frontend with background worker job queues.
• Implemented a tiered, fail-closed authorization system with dynamic YAML configuration reloading.
• Provisioned and maintained dedicated Linux virtual machines (Ubuntu, systemd), setting up automated CI/CD deployment pipelines, system service supervision, and monitoring.

Computer Infrastructure Team Member · Zürich

• Administered on-premise bare-metal student server infrastructure, maintaining hardware, system health, and secure network access.
• Configured Kubernetes deployments for self-hosted association services; authored production manifests for collaborative scheduling tool Rallly that were subsequently contributed and merged into upstream.

• Fast keyboard-centric terminal UI in Rust for Timeshift snapshot administration, live logging, and system restores.

• Terminal diff review tool for AI agent changes, tracking call-site impacts and exporting structured review feedback.

• Interactive terminal interface for structuring, diffing, and submitting Git patch series via git-send-email.

• Self-hosted 3-node k3s cluster on Proxmox VE with Traefik ingress, local-path storage, and automated deployment runbooks.

• High-performance single-file TCP port scanner in C using non-blocking I/O and select() for accurate connection state detection.

• Multi-threaded security CLI toolkit with Markov-chain password generation, dictionary attacks, and modern hash support.

• Raw-socket packet sniffer capturing TCP/DNS network traffic directly to Wireshark-compatible pcap files.

• Terminal journaling tool in Rust featuring keyboard navigation, fuzzy search, markdown support, and Git synchronization.

• Modular neural network in pure C implementing forward passes, backpropagation, and gradient verification without external libraries.