Gonzalo Martinez
Principal Engineer at Pachama
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGonzalo Martinez is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building production-ready infrastructure, data platforms, and distributed systems, currently shaping climate tech product and engineering at Carbon Direct after Pachama’s acquisition. He excels at 0-1 moments—writing the first lines of code that evolve into scalable, maintainable systems—and has led engineering as the first hire through growth into Head of Engineering. His background spans Meta and multiple high-growth startups, pairing deep technical work (infrastructure, data, security) with close collaboration with product, research, and science to deliver AI-powered tools for scientists and analysts. Gonzalo’s practical open-source experience includes contributions to the high-profile Popcorn Time desktop app, where he improved tracking, build processes, and internationalization. Comfortable in ambiguity, he focuses on simplifying complexity via better architecture and cross-functional workflows to get fast, real-world feedback into users’ hands. Based in San Francisco, he brings a pragmatic mix of hands-on engineering and organizational leverage.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished BSc in Computer Science, Unfinished BSc in Computer Science at Universidad Caece Mar del PlataUnion del Sur
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
gruntjs9
g9
nodejs9
uid8
build-automation8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop-legacy
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Official Popcorn-Time Repo
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Gonzalo made several contributions to the Popcorn Time desktop application. They implemented user tracking for watch cancellation events and incorporated disclaimer stats. They also refactored the build process, removing unnecessary modules and supporting the node-webkit builder with custom libraries. Additionally, they merged in changes from the master branch and updated language files.
popcorn-timepopcorn
CaxixiMIDI/caxiximidi
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
musicmidi
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