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Professional Career

    Netherlands eScience Center | Sep/2021 - Current

    Senior Research Software Engineer

    • Helped maintain, developed and consulted on research software, focusing on best practices, such as licensing, testing, automated documentation, testing, CI, and other workflows.
    • Worked on and maintained cffinit, a web application for creating CITATION.cff files. I learned Typescript, Vue and Quasar for this project.
    • Co-organized and talked at a Julia for High-Performance Computing webinar with external speakers and over 50 attendants.

    Federal University of Paraná | Nov/2014 - Aug/2021

    Professor Adjunto (equivalent to Assistant Professor)

    • Taught around 5 courses a year.
    • Advised over 15 students.
    • 10 talks, 5 at international conferences.
    • Industrial Mathematics curriculum planning committee.

    Data Science specialization program

    • Taught optimization and machine learning.
    • Advised students in various topics.

    Researcher in optimization

    • Co-creator of several packages related to nonlinear optimization and numerical linear algebra inside the JuliaSmoothOptimizers organization.
    • Advised students in nonlinear optimization, operations research, and machine learning.
    • Co-creator of the CiDAMO study and research group.
    • 3 published papers.
    • Referee in various journals.

Education and courses

    Udemy

    Machine Learning A-Z, 2019

    • https://ude.my/UC-BZ056X6A

    State University of Campinas

    PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2009-2013

    • Title: Dynamic Control of Infeasibility for Nonlinear Programming
    • Advisor: Francisco de Assis Magalhães Gomes Neto

    Bachelor's degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2005-2008

    • Scientific initiation project on quadratic optimization. Wrote a C++ code.

Professional Skills

    Technical

    • Programming since 2005, having used multiple programming languages, including C, C++, Python, MatLab, Fortran, Javascript, Typescript, and Bash.
    • 8 years experience with the Julia language for research software.
    • My PhD and scientific initiation projects were in C++, accruing 5 years of experience.
    • I have supervised students on machine learning topics, using Python's scikit-learn stack.
    • I have consulted and supervised on optimization modeling topics, include Julia's JuMP modeling language.
    • I manage several GitHub repositories, setting continuous integration for automated testing, building documentation, code coverage, and various other workflows. I have used GitHub Actions, Travis, Codecov, and Coveralls.
    • I have experience building a Single Page Application in Typescript, Vue 3 and Quasar.

    Social and community

    • I am a native Portuguese speaker and a fluent English speaker.
    • I have basic knowledge of Spanish and French, and I know a few words of Dutch and Russian.
    • I have solid written and verbal skills.
    • I am organized, proactive, and I am a team worker.
    • I can produce documentation in various formats, such as written tutorials and APIA reference documents, as well as videos and live coding on specific topics.
    • I managed a team translating the Think Julia book.

    Open science and research software

    • I taught Shell, Git, LaTeX, and Julia in many workshops.
    • I helped organize 2 workshops related to Software Carpentry, 1 related to Hacktoberfest, and other local tutorial sessions.
    • I taught at the 2017 CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science.
    • I have reviewed for the Journal of Open Source Software and the Journal of Open Research Software.

Projects

    cffinit - Citation File Format initializer

    https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javascript/

    • Web application to generate valid CITATION.cff files.
    • I joined the project during the implementation of v2.
    • Uses Typescript, Vue 3, and Quasar, which I learned on the job.

    CiDAMO

    https://cidamo.com.br

    • Study and research group on data science, machine learning, and optimization.
    • Co-creator of the group and supervisor of several students.
    • Organized a week-long data science event with over 300 participants and 8 companies, named CiDWeek.

    JuliaSmoothOptimizers

    https://JuliaSmoothOptimizers.github.io

    • GitHub organization with over 60 packages related to Linear Algebra and Nonlinear Optimization in Julia.
    • Co-creator of around 20 of those packages. My contributions span over 700 commits and tens of thousands of lines of code.
    • My involvement included software programming, reviewing, planning, theoretical research, advising, and publicizing the work through papers, talks, posts, and videos.

    Jill

    https://github.com/abelsiqueira/jill

    • Bash script to install various versions of Julia on Linux and MacOS

    Intro a Julia BR (Think Julia book translation)

    https://juliaintro.github.io/JuliaIntroBR.jl

    • Open source translation of Think Julia
    • I managed the translation team and reviewed each chapter

    perprof-py

    https://github.com/ufpr-opt/perprof-py

    • Python package for producing performance profiles.
    • One paper was published with occasional citations.

    DCICPP

    https://github.com/abelsiqueira/dcicpp

    • C++ implementation of a Trust Cylinder method for equality-constrained optimization
    • Main part of the code produced in my doctorate

Events

Publications

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Supervision

    Rogério Otavio Mainardes da Silva | March/2021

    Método do Gradiente Estocástico para otimização de funções separáveis em Aprendizagem de Máquina

    • Program Conclusion Project.
    • Universidade Federal do Paraná.

    Egmara Antunes dos Santos | August/2020

    Aspectos Teóricos e Computacionais de um Método de Lagrangiano Aumentado com Subproblemas de Caixa Resolvidos por Região de Confiança

    • Master's.
    • Universidade Federal do Paraná.

    Thaiza Rafaele dos Santos Rievrs | Dec/2018

    Problema de Estoque e Roteirização com Transbordo

    • Program Conclusion Project.
    • Universidade Federal do Paraná.

    Francine Luise Milian Ribas | Jul/2017

    Métodos de Região de Confiança para Minimização Irrestrita

    • Program Conclusion Project.
    • Universidade Federal do Paraná.

    Oksana Heringer da Silva | Jul/2017

    Métodos de Penalidade e o Lagrangiano Aumentado

    • Program Conclusion Project.
    • Universidade Federal do Paraná.

    Adrean Cebola | Jun/2017

    Resolução de Programas Lineares com Método de Pontos Interiores

    • Program Conclusion Project.
    • Universidade Federal do Paraná.

    Carlos Henrique Venturi Ronchi | May/2017

    Estudo Matemático de Reconhecimento de Caracteres

    • Program Conclusion Project.
    • Universidade Federal do Paraná.