Hi! My name is Gonzalo Hirsch

Croud is a global, full-service digital agency that grows ambitious brands through reinvention.

• Reduced deployment time by 90% by migrating infrastructure deployments into Terraform (GCP, Docker).
• Saved more than £15,000 per year in GCP by actively identifying and removing unused resources.
• Migrated local workloads into purpose-built serverless system architectures in GCP, leading to at least a 10x increase in processing power (Python, Docker, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Redis).
• Delivered more than £1.3M in revenue by designing and implementing cloud-based architectures (GCP).
• Integrated LLMs (OpenAI, Gemini) into GCP-based workloads, reducing manual tasks by 50%.
• Migrated data storage solutions into optimized alternatives in system architectures, reducing cost by 90%.
• Spearheaded security, fostered the adoption of Workload Identity Federation and Secret Management across cloud providers, and identified vulnerabilities in cloud workloads (AWS, GCP, GitHub Actions).
• Optimized build strategies in GitHub Actions, decreasing billable time by more than 50% (Docker, git, Bash).
• Designed real-time architectures for clients, handling up to 250 RPS (GCP, Terraform, Cloud Run, Firestore).
• Overhauled MLOps pipelines to standardize deployment and development of models (GCP, VertexAI, Python).
• Conducted code reviews for a team of 4 engineers, ensuring adherence to best practices and reducing code-related defects by 50% through automated testing tools (SonarQube, Pytest) over a period of 12 months.

The Winston Project is a digital marketing consulting company based in New York, United States.

• Built multiple websites using Gridsome's SSR for Vue.js and styled websites for various universities in the United States using Tailwind CSS.
• Developed end-user applications for content discovery and community management clients, reaching more than 1,000,000 impressions.
• Engineered and implemented architecture for application back ends, reducing Time To Market by 65%.
• Studied the feasibility of features and created MVPs that guided back-end development.
• Analyzed SEO performance of live sites and improved SEO scores by more than 40%.
• Architected features and technologies during the design and development of a CMS front end and back end.
• Analyzed the accessibility of live sites to comply with WCAG 2 guidelines and improved overall accessibility by more than 50%.

Assistant in coursework evaluation and grading; designed practical coursework for around 30 students. Analyzed multiple machine learning methods for coursework.

• Designed and graded practical coursework.
• Taught a class on Self-Organized Maps (Kohonen Method) for unsupervised machine learning.

NFT Collection of Nonconformist Ducks. Games were developed as a means to generate content for the Discord community.

• Designed and developed three standalone 2D games for content creation.
• Deployed Unity WebGL games on AWS S3 as standalone pages.

Member of the Toptal community under the Core (Full-Stack) specialization.

Technology-focused organization made up of students and alumni of ITBA, dedicated to inspiring and educating in various areas of technology related to software engineering and technology. It's an academic sub-branch of the IEEE Computer Society, one of the largest networks connecting professionals in the world.

• Founded the organization and grew the team, with the other co-founder, from 2 to 20 people.
• Managed teams to ensure acceptable performance and quality, leading to a 100% increase in production.
• Implemented optimized work tools, leading to a decrease in downtime by 50%.

• Developed, engineered, and refactored an API for a digital payments platform using Java and multiple AWS services (Lambda, Serverless, S3, DynamoDB, and CloudFront), reducing development time by more than 50%.
• Created a companion app for a digital payments client using Apache Cordova and Vue.js.
• Developed a simple eCommerce app for a subscription magazine using C#, .NET, and ASP, resulting in 60% more conversions.
• Designed amobile application for a proof-of-worksystem, using location-based techniques to determine whether an individual was inside the premises.

The course was produced along with the members of the Computer Society ITBA and taught in ITBA.

• Designed and taught a course on how to create and develop REST APIs using Python and Django.
• Classes reached approximately 100 attendants.

The course was produced along with the members of the Computer Society ITBA and IEEE ITBA and taught in ITBA.

• Curated and taught a course that introduced programming in Python.
• Classes reached approximately 200 attendants.