Kristyl Gomes
VP, Engineering at Chief
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristyl Gomes is a technology executive and VP of Engineering with 20+ years building high-performance teams and shipping customer-centric SaaS, enterprise, and open-source products. She has led cross-functional orgs to launch cloud-native platforms, a novel AI-assisted database changelog MCP, and a revolutionary test-harness that expanded database coverage from single digits to 90+ platforms. Known for combining hands-on technical depth with strategic vision, she has driven DevSecOps maturity, telemetry at scale, and multi-cloud cost reductions that halved AWS spend. Her background spans DevSecOps, databases, cybersecurity, telecom, and developer platforms, giving her a systems-level lens on product and platform tradeoffs. An entrepreneur and former CEO, she pairs startup grit with Fortune-scale process rigor, and she actively shapes AI strategy and early access programs to tighten product–market fit. Based in Austin, she blends engineering leadership with practical security stewardship—having personally authored information security programs that earned SOC 2 certifications.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics Engineering, BE, Electronics Engineering at University of MumbaiMS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at ArlingtonIndian School Muscat, Sultanate of OmanCOMPUTER NETWORKING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTER NETWORKING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY at City College of San FranciscoSoftware Development, Software Development at UC Berkeley Extension
Github Skills (38)
database-migrations10
continuous-deployment10
maintenance10
postgresql10
continuous-integration10
continuous-testing10
mysql10
mariadb10
harness10
testing10
database-administration10
db210
continuous-delivery10
liquibase10
java10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kristyldatical/sql_repo
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:85 pushes, 3 branches in 13 days
kristyldatical/0626_ddb
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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