Horacio Gonzalez
Senior Software Development Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure at Expedia Group
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolHoracio Gonzalez is a senior software engineer and cloud infrastructure leader with over two decades of experience and more than a decade focused on cloud-native operations and platform engineering. Currently at Expedia Group, he drives efficiency, compliance, and automation across AWS using Python, Java, and Go—building ML-guided cleanup tools and GitHub Copilot-driven tagging solutions that boosted tagging compliance by over 90%. As co-founder and CTO of Datamind he designed and scaled data acquisition and processing pipelines on Azure and led the startup to a successful acquisition in 2024. His earlier tenure at LATAM Airlines combined DevOps, platform migrations, and cost optimization—achieving up to 50% infrastructure savings and a 40% reduction in CDN costs while enabling continuous delivery at scale. Based in Austin, he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, moving between code, cloud economics, and operational strategy. He’s notable for applying ML and automation pragmatically to cut cloud waste rather than pursuing bleeding‑edge novelty.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileApplied Data Science Lab, Applied Data Science Lab at WorldQuant UniversitySpecialist Certificate via Coursera Cloud Computing, Specialist Certificate via Coursera Cloud Computing at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese
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Github Skills (45)
python8
machine-learning7
developer-tools7
html6
activemodel6
airflow6
ai6
webstorm6
bash6
regex6
llm6
intellij-idea6
kubernetes6
javascript6
screen-scraping5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
horacix/finance-bot
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Tools to help with personal finance automation
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 64 pushes in 7 months
horacix/peloton-to-garmin
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Convert workout data from Peloton into JSON/TCX/FIT files and automatically upload to Garmin Connect
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
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