Gonzalo Maldonado
Principal AI Engineer at ZoomInfo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGonzalo Maldonado is a Staff Software Engineer and founder with 11 years building compliance-critical, durable backend systems that run AI products and high-throughput services in production. He repeatedly turns fragile, outage-prone architectures into resilient platforms—replacing a Redis/Postgres/Sidekiq failure surface with Temporal durable workflows that achieved 99.999% completion and zero missed pages in production. Past wins include a zero-downtime migration from a Django monolith to a Go microservice with 100x throughput and 75% cost reduction, and pushing Microsoft-scale push notifications from 10s to 80ms at billion-event volumes. He cofounded Mocksi (a16z Speedrun) to cut enterprise staging from 12.5 days to 30 minutes using in-browser GDPR-friendly simulation and multi-LLM orchestration, and authored the first Terraform provider for Oracle Cloud later adopted officially. An active OSS contributor with PRs to Kubernetes core and maintenance work on oracle/terraform-provider-oci, he blends hands-on engineering, pragmatic leadership, and deep distributed-systems instincts. Based in San Francisco, he advises startups on AI infra, hybrid CPU/GPU scheduling, and FERPA-compliant architectures while focusing on building reproducible, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnológico de MonterreySR005, SR005 at a16z speedrunBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Universidad IberoamericanaBS CSEE, BS CSEE at Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
dependency-management10
terraformer10
oracle-cloud10
go10
oracle10
terraform10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
terraform-provider10
yaml6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/terraform-provider-oci
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gonzalo primarily contributed to the `oracle/terraform-provider-oci` repository by adding and maintaining vendor dependencies, including the import of external packages like `gopkg.in/yaml.v2`. They addressed dependency issues related to the `golang.org/x/crypto/curve25519` package, indicating efforts to keep dependencies up to date. Further contributions include the implementation of a dummy server, as well as the inclusion of resources related to identity management and instance console histories, suggesting the development of core functionality for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provider.
oracleoracle-cloud-infrastructureterraformbare-metaliaas
elg0nz/serverless-slack-status-light
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Slack controlled light to show your availability. No servers run/harmed in the process
Contributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 8 months
slack
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