Summary
Carol Gonzalez is a multidisciplinary creative technologist with 11 years of experience blending software engineering, education, and storytelling across startups and media brands. She has driven quality and automation at Condé Nast/CitizenNet—cutting production bugs by 80%—while teaching full-stack web development at UCLA Extension and Codesmith. Equally at home coding React and Node projects as she is writing and illustrating children’s books, Carol designs cohesive visual narratives using Adobe Creative Suite and hand-crafted layouts. Her background in multicultural media studies informs work that bridges technical systems and culturally conscious storytelling for publishers and brands. She also brings entrepreneurial chops from founding a consumer brand and building P2P/experimental web projects, showing a knack for turning creative concepts into production-ready products. Currently she combines freelance book design and paralegal studies, signaling a unique mix of creative, technical, and advocacy interests.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, International Media, Study Abroad, International Media at University of Sussex
B.A., Communication and Media Studies, B.A., Communication and Media Studies at University of California, Riverside
Spanish, English