Gastón Palomeque
Software Engineer
Creating technology-driven solutions with passion
About
I’m an autodidact Software Engineer passionate about computer science and economics.
My journey began with curiosity about how computers work, leading me to spend countless hours learning and experimenting. This pursuit of knowledge continues to evolve every day.
When I’m not coding, you’ll often find me staying active through swimming, running, or playing football or tennis. These activities keep my mind sharp and help me approach challenges with a fresh perspective.
I’m also deeply interested in economics, particularly the fundamentals of money, macroeconomics, and praxeology. This curiosity shapes how I approach decision-making in an ever-changing world.
Lately, I’ve been diving deep into the exciting field of AI, exploring techniques to enhance open-source LLMs. It’s a rapidly evolving field, and I’m eager to share what I learn along the way.
To conclude, here are some of the technologies I'm experienced with:- Go
- Python
- Docker
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Elasticsearch
- Typescript
- SQL
- Redis
- Prometheus
- Nginx
- Rust
- Bash
- Ollama
- Langchain
- RAG
- MCP
Experience
User Profile and Privacy team member.
- Building and maintaining robust APIs, enabling personalized fitness tracking, meal plans, and holistic wellness features for multiple fitness products.
- Integrating and leveraging AWS services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3) to build modern, serverless solutions.
- Contributing to system architecture by collaborating on designing reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems to support millions of users worldwide.
- Prioritizing sustainable quality by writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code, focusing on continuous improvement and long-term reliability.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, designers, data experts, and content teams, while effectively working with teammates and stakeholders to achieve shared goals and foster constructive, respectful discussions.
Worked on the API, cluster, external integrations and cloud services.
- Improved the server authentication efficiency and scalability, reducing the mean latency in high load environments by 92%, from 10 to 0.8 seconds.
- Proposed and implemented a more secure protocol for the cluster nodes communications.
- Implemented the new management of agent groups and the new commands distribution.
- Engineered the Agent Communications API used by over 1 million active agents globally.
Worked in one of the Core teams, maintaining and improving the main CRM application.
- Boosted the team’s test coverage by 30% and resolved critical bugs impacting 1.5+ million users.
- Proposed a best practices guide on the main UI testing tool which was adopted by all the teams in the company.
- Automated the assignation of code reviews creating a load balancer script that had into account reviewers expertise, vacations and workload.
- Delivered high-quality solutions for multiple time-sensitive projects while adhering to strict deadlines.
- Refactored legacy systems to improve performance and maintainability while enhancing technical documentation.
Projects
Kure
Command-line password manager with a minuscule attack surface and state-of-the-art encryption. First of its kind to offer sessions.
Adak
E-commerce RESTful API server with industry-standard features, supporting both monolithic and microservices architectures.
Groove
Event planning and discovery mobile application featuring an integrated AI assitant.
Btcs
Simplified Bitcoin implementation with a simulated peer-to-peer network based on Docker.
Comeet
Service that keeps track of events from multiple calendar services and accounts, and sends you notifications through different platforms.
Recent Posts
Delving into Wazuh's server performance enhancements
In this post, we will go through real-world performance optimizations introduced to the Wazuh server 4.13.0 version, achieving significant reductions in time and resources consumption up to 95%!
We will explore different techniques such as connection pooling, caching, SQL query improvements, …
Mastering SQL with Go - Part 2
This is the part 2 of a series covering sql and Go, this time, we will cover how to work with SQL transactions context and isolation levels, results dynamic scanning, full text search and recursive queries as well as using multiple result sets to do many queries in a single roundtrip.
To go to part …
Mastering SQL with Go - Part 1
I found myself using SQL a lot in one of my projects and I have learnt many things while trying to solve the problems I encountered.
This post is the part one of a series where I will try to show how to manage data in a relational database using SQL (Postgre syntax), Go and its standard library …
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