Software Engineering & Research
Building systems that tell you why they work.
Computer Science senior at the University of Central Florida. Project manager and technical lead on a team delivering a permission-aware artificial intelligence (AI) retrieval agent for a university legal office's enterprise Microsoft 365 tenant. Independently running a study measuring large language model (LLM) automation accuracy with build inference across six build systems and three program corpora.
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Leading Knights Counsel through its pilot phase, with metadata schema implementation as our primary focus. Taking the LLM build-inference study toward first results. Graduating December 2026 with plans on beginning Master's studies in the Spring. Looking for technical project lead and applied AI research roles.
Updated August 2026
Top projects of mine as of recent, all listed in detailed pages.
An institutional-memory assistant for a university legal office, deployed inside the client's enterprise Microsoft 365 tenant. It answers from the office's own documents, cites its sources, and declines rather than speculating when retrieval does not supply enough grounding.
A containerized LLM agent that works out how to build software from nothing but the source archive: build system, dependencies, and what commands to run in which order. The study measures whether inference difficulty tracks how much each ecosystem declares about its own dependencies.
Study design settled; harness in progress, results pending.
MOREA full-stack app where users open packs and collect hand-drawn cards. I owned the pack-opening and collection views, the branding and card art, and the delivery plan.
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MOREA role-based class enrollment system with separate admin and member dashboards, instructor and class management, and capacity-aware enrollment backed by MySQL.
Co-author · sole author, system design and behavior specification sections · August 2026
A full technical account of the system's architecture, behavior specification, evaluation methodology, and results, prepared for enterprise information technology (IT) and the client. Available on request.
Contributing author · sole author, system design section · 2026
Requirements, architecture, and design rationale for the sponsored capstone, including the behavior test set and the architecture decision record covering the six-agent to two-agent reversal. Available on request.
Expected graduation: December 2026 · grade point average (GPA): 3.38
Milestones: Passed the Computer Science Foundation Exam
Awards: Bright Futures Academic Scholarship
· University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL
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I am a Computer Science senior at the University of Central Florida with a passion for making software engineering accessible to everyone. Currently focusing on AI work that involves putting strict boundaries on what a system can and cannot do, while building the evaluation that measures that accurately. This applies to both of my current projects. In Knights Counsel, where the hard part was grounding and citation enforcement rather than the chat interface. For my build-inference study, I ask how much of any reported success rate is capability and how much is due to the corpus it was measured on.
I grew my passion for these topics from my experience as a research assistant. Over two years of research assistantships which involved hand-diagnosing build failures across multiple build systems, and instrumenting participants for a study of how programmers debug in groups.
Outside of Software Engineering, I enjoy teaching swim lessons, where I daily have to explain new topics to new people, of varying skill levels, experience and backgrounds.
In my personal life, I love drawing, drumming, and going to the gym. I have always had a passion for art, when I was younger I'd spend my time filling books with hundreds of superhero designs, and today I use this passion to not only make my projects appear more visually intriguing, but also easy to understand. I also hold music close to my heart, I love watching local bands live and playing music with my friends every so often. Lastly I grew up swimming and in high school I swam competitively at a national level, today I stick to the gym but I still love getting in the water.
Please contact me through my email at davidegusmao@outlook.com, or find me on LinkedIn and GitHub. Also available is my resume, available as a PDF along with my CV.
