Golda Velez
Staff Software Engineer at civ.works
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolGolda Velez is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building data pipelines, observability tooling, and distributed systems across startups and large platforms. She blends hands-on engineering in TypeScript, Python, and infrastructure (Terraform/Ansible) with product-minded architecture work, most recently contributing observability and metrics plumbing to the Ceramic protocol and leading data transparency efforts at Turquoise Health. As a founder and advisor she applies ML, LLM agents, and RAG pipelines to verifiable credentials and standards work (LinkedClaims) while winning grants and business development opportunities. She also runs RaisetheVoices, an all-volunteer human-rights advocacy project, reflecting a long-standing commitment to tech for good and civic impact. Based in Tucson, AZ, she’s equally comfortable shipping production fixes, running on-call rotations, or arguing about progressive trust models for issuer registries. Colleagues rely on her for clear communication, cross-team coordination, and turning messy data into auditable, actionable systems.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
University High SchoolCalifornia Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
observability10
cer10
typescript10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
metric10
cli10
expressjs9
apidoc8
api8
dockers7
docker7
promql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ceramicnetwork/js-ceramic
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Typescript implementation of the Ceramic protocol
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:122 reviews, 19 commits, 85 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Golda primarily focused on enhancing the Ceramic network's CLI tools and core functionality. Their contributions include implementing metrics instrumentation and exporting capabilities, integrating new metrics for various events such as IPFS timeouts and stream operations, and refining the daemon configuration. They also addressed bug fixes and improvements to the CLI, and integrated the observability package, replacing the metrics package. These changes involved modifications across multiple packages within the repository, demonstrating a broad understanding of the system.
ceramicjavascripttypescriptblockchain
Whats-Cookin/trust_claim
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
The Frontend for the Trustclaim
Contributions:84 reviews, 46 commits, 187 PRs in 8 months
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