Gilbert Mena
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarGilbert Mena is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, from founding predictive analytics startups to leading engineering teams at AirMap and TextNow. He has a track record of shipping high-impact systems—pioneering automated drone traffic control and driving wireless/telecom features to expand affordable cellular access. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and infrastructure, Gilbert has led migrations to containerized architectures, rewrites from Node.js to Go, and platform moves between AWS and Azure. As a hands-on manager and founder he blends product intuition with people-first leadership, recruiting and growing high-performance teams while introducing processes that improve delivery and observability. Based in Austin, he pairs a fondness for storytelling and comedy with a pragmatic drive to make technology approachable and useful for everyday people. An operator who frequently toggles between strategy and code, Gilbert often finds innovation by collaborating closely with diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (74)
raspberry10
freeswitch10
transformation9
directives9
unlock9
sip9
ide9
telephony9
voip9
webrtc9
development-environment9
telecom8
signalwire8
server-core8
hardware8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hibrid/statemachine2
Dec 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
hibrid/kbcli
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
GO client library for Kill Bill
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
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