Jules
Gurando
@ Software Engineer — New Grad ’25
CS grad who's worked across the stack: From userspace thread schedulers to trading simulators.
Who I am
A quick overview of my background and skills
Recent CS grad with a broad background across systems, full-stack, and data. I've never really settled into one corner of the stack, and I've stopped trying to. I'm drawn to problems where performance and correctness actually matter, whether that's at the infrastructure level or the user-facing end.
When I'm not coding: guitar, drawing, and the gym. Probably not what you'd expect.
Things I've built
A selection of personal and academic projects
A full-stack iOS activity logging app built with React Native and Expo. Features a real-time stopwatch with pause/resume, instant event logging, SQLite local persistence, tag-based categorization, and CSV export. Distributed via TestFlight using EAS Build.
A full matching engine simulating a real trading environment. Limit order book, buy/sell matching, and order execution logic for market and limit orders. Client/server architecture built on a FIX-based protocol over TCP/IP.
pthread-style threading library built from scratch in C: preemptive scheduler driven by timer signals, full context switching, and mutex synchronization. No OS thread support; everything runs in userspace.
A Battleship game where the computer opponent doesn't just guess randomly: it uses adaptive heuristics based on hit/miss history to hunt and sink ships efficiently. Built with a clean Pygame UI.
My background
Education, experience
- Core CS: Data Structures, Algorithms, Computer Architecture
- Systems: Systems Programming, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Networking
- AI and Data Science: Machine Learning, Intro to AI, Computer Vision, Data Science, Statistics, Linear Algebra
- Software Engineering and Data Management: Software Engineering and Methodology, Data Management and Databases
Things I've written
Notes on engineering, things I've learned, and occasional opinions
Let's talk
Open to full-time roles, collabs, and interesting conversations