Gabe Richard

Senior Software Engineer | ML, Backend & Infra @ Scale | M.Eng, Software Eng – University of Waterloo

Canada

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I'm a senior software engineer with over 7 years of combined experience in software and renewable energy engineering. I specialize in backend and full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning — and I’m passionate about using technology to solve environmental and social challenges. After starting in mechanical engineering, I transitioned into software through a Master’s in Software Engineering (GPA 4.0) from the University of Waterloo. Since then, I’ve led engineering efforts at early-stage startups and scaling companies, including rebuilding high-traffic analytics platforms, deploying real-time infrastructure on AWS and GCP, and shipping production-ready mobile apps. My work has delivered measurable impact — including 6× faster APIs, 100× storage savings, and a 99% reduction in compute time. At ComhlaTech, I focus on algorithmic trading R&D — designing, testing, and refining systematic trading strategies for the futures and commodities markets. I work primarily in Python, building and validating both rule-based and machine learning–driven approaches (LSTM, Transformers) for time-series forecasting. I also develop backtesting frameworks and automated evaluation workflows to support scalable, data-driven research. Additionally, I've designed cloud-based pipelines to parallelize compute-heavy optimization tasks, significantly accelerating model development cycles. My mission is to build software that improves quality of life, whether in public transit, education, health, energy, fintech, or emissions reduction. I'm always eager to collaborate, grow, and take on meaningful problems.

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Experience (17 roles)

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Secureframe · Permanent Full-time

Jul 2025 - Present · 1 mo·Remote

Skills: Ruby on Rails · React.js · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · PostgreSQL · Redis

Senior Software Engineer

2 yrs

Jul 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo·Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

- Built distributed AWS data pipelines to parallelize optimization algorithms, reducing compute time by 99% and enabling faster research cycles. - Designed and automated algorithmic trading backtesting workflows, transitioning research from manual spreadsheets to scalable, code-driven analysis. - Tr...

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Replayz · Permanent Full-time

Nov 2023 - Jun 2024 · 8 mos·Remote

- Redesigned backend APIs with fine-grained access controls, including token expiration, throttling, and one-time-use tokens. - Migrated from Heroku to AWS (RDS, ECS, CI/CD, load balancing), improving deployment reliability and scalability. - Refactored core, analytics and onboarding flows, resultin...

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Education (3)

University of Waterloo

Jan 2019 - Aug 2021

Grade: 93.25% (Cummulative) Activities and societies: Software Developer for UW Blueprint (Jan 2020 - April 2020) ECE 651 - Foundations of Software Engineering (Jan 2019 - April 2019) ECE 653 - Software Quality, Testing & Maintenance (May 2019 - Aug 2019) ECE 650 - Software Engineering Tools & Methods (Sep 2019 - Dec 2019) ECE 656 - Database Systems (Jan 2020 - April 2020) ECE 657 - Tools of Intelligent System Design (May 2020 - Aug 2020) ECE 606 - Algorithm Design and Analysis (Sep 2020 - Dec 2020) ECE 657A - Data and Knowledge Modeling and Analysis (Jan 2021 - April 2021) MSCI 720 - Information Retrieval Systems (May 2021 - August 2021) Skills: Computer Science · Software Development · Database Design · Github · Back-End Web Development · Programming · Android Studio · Technical Architecture · Debugging · Software Design · Continuous Delivery (CD) · Linux · NoSQL · Deep Learning · Databases

University of Waterloo

2012 - 2017

Grade: 88.49% (Cummulative) Activities and societies: UWaterloo Serve Volleyball Club Executive, Engineering Society Class Rep. - Dean's honour list recipient terms: 1A, 1B and 4B GENE 121 - Digital Computation Course - Created various mathematical functions in C++ and developed software (in Robot C) for a mini robot designed to aid visually impaired people with their walking needs (https://github.com/gaberch/Digital-Computation-Course) Fourth Year Design Project - Designed, prototyped and built a controls-based auto-balancing camera stabilization system - Received the ASME Runner Up Best Technical Quality Award Skills: Programming CAPSTONE

Waterloo Collegiate Institute

2008 - 2012

Activities and societies: Volleyball Team, Multicultural Show, Badminton Team, Student Council, Relay For Life committee, Math Club and Science Club. Captain of the Senior Volleyball Team Actor for Multicultural Show Boys Double Badminton Champion Relay for Life organizer

Skills (83)

GrafanaElasticsearchLinuxMySQLTypeScriptRubyscikit-learnFirebasePush NotificationsGoogle CloudGitHubParallel ComputingReact.jsPyTorchAmazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)Next.jsTime Series ForecastingGPTAWS SQSArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningFront-End DevelopmentTime Series AnalysisAPI DevelopmentRedux.jsFutures TradingReact HooksNeural NetworksAWS S3RedisRuby on RailsRDSECSPythonCloudRDSECSPythonDjangoPostgreSQLLambdaSQSDockerKubernetesJenkinsCypressJavaScriptAngularRedisFlaskNginxRabbitMQGrafanaElasticsearchLinuxMySQLTypeScriptRubyscikit-learnFirebasePush NotificationsGoogle CloudGitHubGitHubLinuxDjangoPostgreSQLLambdaSQSDockerKubernetesJenkinsCypressJavaScriptAngularFlaskNginxRabbitMQReactAWSReactAWSTransformers

Certifications (9)▼

Django 3 - Full Stack Websites with Python Web Development

Udemy

WHMIS

University of Waterloo

CPR A With AED

Canadian Red Cross

The Complete Node.js Developer Course

Udemy

Creating Python APIs Like a BOSS - The Django REST Framework

Udemy

Blockchain A-Z™: Learn How To Build Your First Blockchain

Udemy

Complete Python Bootcamp: Go from zero to hero in Python 3

Udemy

Java Tutorial for Complete Beginners

Udemy

React - The Complete Guide 2024 (incl. Next.js, Redux)

Udemy

Languages (4)▼

Spanish(Limited working proficiency)English(Native or bilingual proficiency)Hungarian(Limited working proficiency)Romanian(Native or bilingual proficiency)

Volunteer Experience (4)▼

Class Representative

UWaterloo Engineering Society

Sep 2012 - Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Club Executive

UWaterloo Serve Volleyball Club

Sep 2014 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Relay For Life event organizer

Canadian Cancer Society

Sep 2011 - Jun 2012 · 10 mos

Software Engineer

UW Blueprint

Jan 2020 - Apr 2020 · 4 mos

Honors & Awards (9)▼

Award of Honor

Issued by Waterloo Collegiate Institute · May 2012

Associated with Waterloo Collegiate Institute Awarded to individuals who have been a sports teams, 3 clubs and have maintained an overall average of at least 80% every year.

President's Scholarship of Distinction

Issued by University of Waterloo · Sep 2012

Associated with University of Waterloo Awarded to students with a 95%+ admission average

Dean's Honour List

Issued by Dean of Engineering · Jan 2013

Associated with University of Waterloo Awarded to students with an average of 80%+ in their previous academic term.

First in Class Engineering Scholarship

Issued by Dean of Engineering · Apr 2013

Associated with University of Waterloo Presented to the student achieving the highest average compared to their classmates over a school term.

CWOSSA Qualification

Associated with Waterloo Collegiate Institute CWOSSA Junior Boys' Doubles Badminton - 1st place Senior Boys' Doubles Badminton - 3rd place Senior Boys' Volleyball - 3rd place

Award of Merit

Issued by Waterloo Collegiate Institute · May 2012

Associated with Waterloo Collegiate Institute Offered to an individual that was nominated for the Athlete of the Year award.

Sir Sandford Fleming Teaching Excellency Award

Issued by University Of Waterloo · Sep 2014

Associated with University of Waterloo Awarded to the teaching assistant nominated by their students to the undergraduate engineering office.

WCSSA Qualification

Associated with Waterloo Collegiate Institute WCSSA Junior Boys' Doubles Badminton - 1st place Senior Boys' Doubles Badminton - 1st place Senior Boys' Volleyball - 2nd place

Dean's Honour List

Issued by Dean of Engineering · Jun 2013

Associated with University of Waterloo Awarded to students with an average of 80%+ in their previous academic term.