Edilmo Palencia
Technical Lead at Code for Venezuela
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolEdilmo Palencia is a hands-on technical lead and AI veteran with over 20 years of experience designing, implementing, and shipping large-scale software and hardware systems across startups and enterprises. He has led cross-functional teams at Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and VMware, specializing in Deep Reinforcement Learning (Offline and Continual RL), distributed training, and production ML platforms. As a founder of Mammut.io he built scalable conversational AI infrastructure, and earlier work spans hardware, firmware and secure voting systems—evidence of a rare full-stack systems-to-ML breadth. Based in Fremont, he combines product-focused leadership with research-minded engineering, driving ML features from causal inference experiments to automated root-cause analysis in production. Actively volunteering with Code for Venezuela, he also brings global deployment experience and a pragmatic knack for turning complex algorithms into reliable, distributed services.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished, Biotechnology, Unfinished, Biotechnology at Universidad Simón Bolívar
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (46)
ai-agent10
datastore10
ai10
gemini10
cli10
jupyter9
nosql9
capstone9
embeddable9
database9
streaming9
hyperparameter-tuning9
minikube8
reinforcement-learning8
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BonsaiAI/teachDeepRL
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Edilmo/gemini-cli
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Contributions:7 PRs, 128 pushes, 19 branches in 5 months
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