Enrique Gil
Tech Lead at Yelp
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEnrique Gil is a Tech Lead with 11 years of experience designing and shipping resilient distributed systems, currently leading technical roadmaps and mentoring engineering teams at Yelp. He has driven large-scale rearchitectures—most notably migrating Yelp’s chat from a CRUD monolith to a streaming system—and built data pipelines and alerting for critical business metrics. Previously at Skyscanner he automated high-value invoicing, implemented microservice and serverless backends, and shaved seconds off user-facing latencies while increasing revenue through platform features. Rooted in an MSc in Wireless Communication Systems, Enrique combines deep systems-level research experience with practical cloud-native engineering across Python, Java, and AWS. Known for standardizing team practices and promoting reliability and testing, he brings both hands-on implementation and cross-org influence to complex SLDC decisions. An early-career founder/first hire on a commercial wireless product, he retains a pragmatic, experimental approach to building robust networked systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) in Engineering Wireless Communication Systems, Master of Science (MSc) in Engineering Wireless Communication Systems at Aalborg UniversityCharles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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Github Skills (64)
asynchronous10
hugo10
python10
jinja210
async10
http10
template-engine10
http-client10
http-server10
client-server10
bioinformatics10
modeling10
expressive10
aiohttp10
jupyter9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
esaezgil/beautifulhugo
May 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
hugostatic-website-generatorwebsite-generatorhugo-themestatic-site-generator
esaezgil/esaezgil.github.io
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:170 commits, 490 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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