Gabriel Gilder
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGabriel Gilder is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend, ML, and platform systems. He has led cross-functional technical strategy and execution at companies from Square and Plaid to Boomy and Output, tackling technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and migrations while raising engineering standards. Gabriel combines hands-on engineering—optimizing latency, introducing gRPC/protobuf architectures, and designing inference workload balancers—with mentorship and team-level org design to help engineers grow. He’s known for turning messy, mission-critical systems into maintainable platforms and for shepherding AI/ML features from R&D to production. Currently available for consulting, he blends product-minded pragmatism with deep infrastructure and reliability expertise. A former founder and studio-arts graduate, he brings a creative perspective to technical problem solving and system design.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ggilder/dropbox-sync-verifier
Jul 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
ggilder/newmac
Apr 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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