David Gusmao

University of Central Florida, B.S. Computer Science

Orlando, FL · Expected December 2026 · grade point average (GPA): 3.38
Passed the Computer Science Foundation Exam · Bright Futures Academic Scholarship

Project Manager & Technical Lead, Knights Counsel

Jun 2026 – Present · UCF Senior Design, Sponsored Capstone · Orlando, FL

• Lead a five-person team building a permission-aware AI document-retrieval assistant for a university legal office, deployed in the client's Microsoft 365 tenant against a live document corpus.
• Designed and built the retrieval agent end to end: two-agent topology, specified behavioral requirements, grounding and citation enforcement, and a version-controlled configuration baseline.
• Built an 18-case evaluation suite and a custom grading rubric after finding the platform's built-in grader scored answer rate rather than designed behavior; results redirected the team's critical path.
• Co-authored the project's technical white paper; sole author of the system design and behavior specification sections.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, COP 3402 Systems Software

Spring 2026 · University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL

• Graded assignments and exams and worked through course material directly with students, covering assemblers, linkers, loaders, and compilers alongside memory hierarchy, program performance, and system-level I/O.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Hardening Build Systems

Oct 2025 – May 2026 · University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL

• Diagnosed build failures by hand across six build systems (Autotools, Make, CMake, Maven, Gradle, Ant), including undeclared Java Development Kit (JDK) version and compiler-flag requirements.
• Built the tooling that turns raw experimental output into LaTeX-ready tables and pgfplots figures used in project reporting.
• Supported reproducible workflows by organizing datasets, validating results, and documenting analysis steps.

Research Assistant, Human Factors Group Study

Feb 2025 – May 2026 · University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL

• Ran experimental sessions studying how programmers debug code in groups, contributing to data collection workflow and study setup.
• Instrumented participants with biometric equipment (heart rate, respiration, skin conductance, gaze tracking, prefrontal cortex blood oxygenation) to improve measurement quality across sessions.

Mapping How LLMs Build Software

Python, Docker, Anthropic API, Linux · May 2026 – Present

• Building a containerized large language model (LLM) agent that infers and executes build recipes for unfamiliar source archives, selecting the build system, installing system and toolchain dependencies, and running each build phase in a fresh isolated container.
• Designing a cross-tool comparison running three build-inference systems over three program corpora to separate genuine capability from benchmark fit, evaluated against a hand-verified corpus of ~370 build recipes that I contributed to.

PocketProfessors

React, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, JWT · Jul 2025

• Led frontend user experience (UX) for pack-opening and collection views: responsive grid, focus states, and Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) labeling; collaborated on application programming interface (API) shape and the JSON Web Token (JWT) refresh lifecycle. Deployed at pocketprofessors.com.

Personal Portfolio and Resume Site

HTML, CSS, JavaScript · 2025 – Present

• Hand-written with no framework; implements skip links, section-level ARIA labeling, reduced-motion support, visible focus outlines, and a per-project accent theme system.