TORRES OS

Gabriel Torres Gamez

Data scientist and software engineer in Zürich.

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Hi, I'm Gabo.

I'm a data scientist and software engineer from Zürich. I work as an Application Engineer for data and integration at UMB, and I teach Web Data Acquisition at FHNW.

Proficient at transforming complex problems into innovative solutions. Ambitious, analytical, curious, with strong team collaboration abilities.

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Work experience

Application Engineer, Data & Integration

UMB AG · Urdorf, Zürich · Jul 2025 – now

  • Developed and maintained the company-wide enterprise service management platform OMNITRACKER across 12 business areas, from implementation to production release.
  • Led the implementation of absence and vacation management, including fully automated vacation entitlement calculation.
  • Designed and rolled out REST APIs for ServiceNow time tracking and customer ticketing, and migrated the SharePoint interface to the Microsoft Graph API.
  • Held technical ownership of the company-wide physical access control system, including migration to its successor product.
  • Built a Python MCP server giving the team's AI assistants structured access to product documentation and system knowledge.
  • Co-authored the team's development guidelines and gave internal tech talks on Git, CI/CD, logging, and AI-assisted development.

Lecturer FH

FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland · Brugg, Aargau · Feb 2025 – now

  • Lecturer for the course “Web Data Acquisition” in the B.Sc. Data Science program.

Lecturer HF

ABB Technikerschule · Baden, Aargau · Apr 2024 – Jun 2025

  • Designed and lectured “Data Science & Artificial Intelligence” for HF programs in Building Automation and Energy & Environmental Engineering.

Junior Data Engineer

Baloise Asset Management · Basel · Aug 2024 – Apr 2025

  • Conducted requirements analysis and designed, implemented, and managed a Product Master database using PostgreSQL.
  • Developed Python-based data import and export pipelines ensuring reliable Excel-based workflows.
  • Implemented Mage-ETL pipelines on OpenShift infrastructure with Jenkins CI/CD for continuous deployment and on-demand execution.
  • Mentored a working student in developing a user-friendly frontend interface for displaying Product Master data and file management through established pipelines.
  • Coached the product management team in utilizing the implemented data management solution and enabled independent usage.
  • Created structured programming guidelines according to modern industry standards.

Data Scientist (Civil Service)

EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology · Dübendorf, Zürich · Jul 2023 – Aug 2023

  • Collaborator in the “Air Pollution and Environmental Technology” department.
  • Revision of the algorithm for the detection of compounds in GC-MS data for the open-source project ALPINAC.

Technical Support Specialist

University Hospital Balgrist · Zürich · Aug 2022

  • First and second level support for the clinic and campus environment.

Class and Student Assistance (Civil Service)

Eduzis, Schulhaus Seehalde · Niederhasli, Zürich · Sep 2020 – Sep 2021

  • Supporting young people in class and during the lunch break.
  • Temporary help in the IT department.

Software Developer (Apprenticeship)

University Hospital Balgrist · Zürich · Aug 2016 – Jul 2020

  • First and second level support for the clinic and campus environment.
  • Assistance in the field of network technology.
  • Support of administrative and medical applications.
  • Supporting medical doctors in research tasks with process optimizations and data management.
  • Sole development of smaller customer-specific projects.
  • Participation in large cross-company projects like the digital patient portal.
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Education

CAS Software Architecture

HSLU, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts · Rotkreuz, Zug · Sep 2026 – now

B.Sc. in Data Science

FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland · Brugg, Aargau · Sep 2021 – Feb 2025

  • Several interdisciplinary projects in areas such as AI security, astronomy, sensor technology, IoT, real estate and air quality.
  • Strong focus on deep learning, including adversarial attacks, computer vision, natural language processing, signal processing, and social network analysis.
  • Regularly approached by fellow students for advice on a broad range of technical challenges.

Vocational Training in Software Development (EFZ) and Vocational Baccalaureate (BM1)

BBW, Berufsbildungsschule Winterthur · Winterthur, Zürich · Aug 2016 – Jul 2020

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Projects

FlareSense

A classification model for the detection of solar flares using the e-Callisto solar spectrometer network.

Smart Classroom

A complete IoT solution for monitoring and evaluating air quality in classrooms.

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Certificates

  • 2025 ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, PeopleCert
  • 2025 Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft
  • 2023 Data Hackdays BE 2023, Kanton Bern
  • 2022 MAKEathon 2022, FHNW
  • 2021 Betreuung von Jugendlichen 2, CURAVIVA
  • 2020 Betreuung von Jugendlichen 1, CURAVIVA
  • 2020 Kommunikation und Betreuung (KoBe), Swiss Red Cross
  • 2018 Certificado de Lengua y Cultura Españolas C1, Ministerio de Educación de España
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