Gilbert Garza
Co-Founder, Smart Contract Auditor at Gumdrop: Campus Group Chat
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolGilbert Garza is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building and auditing products from prototype to production. Based in Austin, he co-founded Macro to focus on smart contract security while advising and building consumer product engineering at Gumdrop. He blends full-stack craftsmanship with a pragmatic product sensibility—contributions to notable open-source projects like Mithril.js and SocketStream show a long-running commitment to robust client-side frameworks and real-time web tooling. His background includes teaching and mentoring as an instructor at MakerSquare and hands-on roles across startups and platforms, giving him a knack for turning ambiguous ideas into testable, maintainable implementations. Unusually for a security-focused founder, he remains an active contributor to developer-facing libraries and mocks (e.g., stripe-ruby-mock), signaling both curiosity and an emphasis on developer ergonomics.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (27)
application-framework10
javascript10
virtual-dom10
realtime10
coffeescript10
testing10
app-framework10
template-engine10
ruby10
mithriljs10
mocking10
web-framework10
nodejs10
stripe-api10
api-design9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
stripe-ruby-mock/stripe-ruby-mock
Apr 2013 - Feb 2018
A mocking library for testing stripe ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:316 commits, 24 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gilbert primarily focused on developing and implementing core functionalities for a mocking library designed for testing Stripe's Ruby library. Their work includes the creation of mock data structures for Stripe objects like customers, charges, and subscriptions. They also implemented methods to handle various Stripe API requests within the mock environment, as well as error generation. These efforts contributed to building out the core functionality of the mocking library.
stripetestingrubymockingmocking-library
MithrilJS/mithril.js
May 2015 - Dec 2018
A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 15 PRs, 201 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gilbert primarily contributed to enhancing the Mithril.js framework by adding features and improving its functionality. This included implementing `catch` functionality for promise-like objects and introducing `m.prop.sync`. Further contributions involved adding tests and addressing edge cases, specifically relating to style updates and stack trace handling. Their work directly impacts the framework's robustness and usability.
virtualdomvirtual-domjavascript-frameworkjavascriptframework
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