Summary
Mario Gonzalez is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in SRE, backend development, and infrastructure, currently contributing at EDB after a long tenure on Oracle's Ksplice team. He blends system administration and software engineering skills across private, educational, and open-source ecosystems, having led backend teams, served as CTO, and taught university-level programming. Comfortable in distributed, mostly-remote teams, he has deep practical experience with PostgreSQL, Python/Django, C and GTK, and building integration projects for legacy and third-party systems. Mario’s background includes both product-focused optimization—building vertically scalable billing systems for thousands of customers—and developer tooling, such as translation and localization pipelines for documentation. He pairs formal graduate studies in computer applications with a habit of speaking at conferences and mentoring peers, bringing a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to reliability and performance.
3 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, First Certificate of English, English, First Certificate of English at Instituto Chileno Británico
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Instituto Profesional Virginio Gómez
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Engineering, master, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Engineering, master at Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello
Business and Internet diploma, Economics, Business, Business and Internet diploma, Economics, Business at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
English, Spanish