David Gonzalez
Principal Engineer at Cloudsmith
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Gonzalez is a Principal Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, particularly in financial services. He blends hands-on engineering (Node.js, Java, Go, Kubernetes) with DevOps and security-minded architecture, having designed high-throughput Kubernetes solutions and CI/CD pipelines for regulated organizations. An author of two technical books, including Developing Microservices with Node.js, he also contributes to notable open-source projects such as pino (enhancing serializer behavior for child loggers). David mentors engineers as a part-time lecturer and prefers pragmatic designs—advocating microservices while acknowledging the continuing value of monoliths. His background in both computer science and finance informs reliable, production-focused solutions that balance performance, observability and operational simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universitat d'AlacantBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance at UNED
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
nodejs10
logger10
serializer10
testing9
json9
socket-io6
ssl6
typescript6
content-type6
redis6
scalability6
regex6
java6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pinojs/pino
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
🌲 super fast, all natural json logger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 18 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `pinojs/pino` repository, a fast JSON logger, by enhancing its serializers functionality. They focused on improving the child logger's serializer inheritance and merging behavior, ensuring parent serializers were accessible and respected in child logger instances. Additionally, the user addressed code review comments, fixed a strict comparison, and handled compatibility issues with older Node.js versions regarding object assignment.
super-fastjson-loggerwinstonloggerlogging
cct-devops/ticket-zon
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 10 PRs in 18 days
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