Daniel Balciunas

IT Project Leader of several internal projects. Team Leader of internal resources and also external workforce provided by third party companies. Hands-on senior developer and analyst responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing and refactoring the main pricing library of the bank, the server-based pricing hub services, the new market data system for the bank's treasury and backoffice, and the fully refactored in-house pricing and managerial system of the bank.

Developer in the bank's financial Quantitative Team, responsible for dynamically supplying financial software demands of the bank's treasury on time-to-market. Developer of complex quantitative financial pricing libraries, real-time market data publish & subscribe services, multi-threaded electronic and algorithmic trading systems, various Excel add-ins and tools for the bank's Treasury.

Development engineer of digital television applications and system software targeted to Latin America, including ISDB-T and DVB-T standards. Requirement specification, development plan, software design, implementation, testing, software integration with end product, and creating new features for TV sets. Worked abroad for about 1 month in Osaka - Japan, and 4 months straight in Suwon - South Korea. Author of the patent: Brazil, PI0900357-6A2, 02.02.2009.

Development of real-time 3D interactive applications for virtual reality and visualization for desktops and CAVE systems. Development of GPU-assisted hybrid algorithms. Planning, project, and purchase of high-performance computer clusters for virtual reality, computer graphics, and distributed computing.

Development of a voxel-based ray casting demo for medical data visualization. Training of co-workers on how to use Linux systems. Volunteer for presenting academic workshops related to computer graphics rendering for CAVE systems. System setup and benchmarking of graphics cards. Benchmarking of graphics clusters.

Development of management tools for distributed computing on ITAUTEC's Linux-based clusters, SPADE Tools 741

3D Computer Graphics, Performance Computing, Virtual Reality. Thesis: GPU-Assisted Interactive Ray Tracing. Paper: "GPU-Assisted Ray Casting of Large Scenes", http://www.lsi.usp.br/~dulley/dulley_docs/GPU-AssistedRC.pdf

Software Development, Software Engineering, Computer Systems, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Devices. Theme: Use of Design Patterns in the Unified Process (Software Engineering).