Vera Gonzalez
Software Engineer at Hightouch
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVera Gonzalez is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building product at Hightouch after a recent stint as a Rust developer at a fast-moving startup. She excels at simplifying complex codebases—once compressing a 20,000+ line CLI into a lean, feature-rich Rust library—and has delivered production SQLite-backed services, WASM browser APIs, and IPLD-compatible CAR tooling. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, she pairs TypeScript/React proficiency with low-level systems work and thoughtful technical documentation. Known for curiosity and clear technical communication, she translates trade-offs into actionable recommendations that accelerate decision-making in teams. Based in Washington, DC, she brings an educator’s clarity from prior teaching roles to mentor peers and shape maintainable, user-focused systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Computer Science, N/A, Computer Science at Montgomery CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of MarylandHigh School, Computer Science, High School, Computer Science at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
English
Github Skills (29)
widgets10
user-interface9
elm9
timezone9
rust8
cli8
polyhedra8
parse8
geometry7
date-formatting7
swiftdate7
cross-platform7
dates7
validate7
nsdate7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
banyancomputer/rs-wnfs
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
Rust implementation of the WebNative FileSystem (WNFS) specification (banyan fork)
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 47 pushes in 8 months
organizedgrime/dotfiles
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 209 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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