Paulo Daniel Gonzalez

Chicago - USA

Email: pdgonzalez872@gmail.com | LinkedIn: pdgonzalez872 | Website: pdgonzalez872.github.io | GitHub: @pdgonzalez872

Summary

I’m a curious and energetic builder who enjoys solving problems, debugging complex systems, and shipping software that works reliably at scale. I’m passionate about open source and spend most of my time building with Elixir. Outside of programming, I enjoy spending time with my family, playing racket sports (mostly padel these days), and playing guitar.

Experience

Dishbooks | Senior Software Engineer
  • - Remote - Houston (TX) | Jan 2026 - Present
  • - Joined a one-engineer team at an early-stage startup building accounting software for restaurant groups
  • - Introduced agentic coding workflows to the team (deterministic guardrails such as custom linter checks, constantly experimenting with prompts/rules) to scale code generation without losing correctness
  • - Advocated moving CI to the local machine, so engineers and agents run the full check suite before opening a PR
  • - Generalist on the team: work in all areas of the product (AP, AR, banking, reporting, integrations), alongside the business and from users' workflows
  • - Stack: Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Postgres
KASE Consulting LLC | Consultant and Software Engineer
  • - Chicago (IL) | Aug 2017 - Present (8+ yrs)
  • - Partner with small businesses to improve processes (Adtech, FinTech and Sports industries so far)
  • - Collaborate closely with clients to design software that aligns with daily workflows and creates meaningful value
  • - Build high impact, scalable, full-stack solutions for our partners
  • - Lead end-to-end project lifecycles from discovery and design through delivery and support
  • - Building Pista and PadelAuPair (padel vertical) and Love (personal CRM vertical)
  • - Currently not accepting new clients but am happy to connect
  • - Stack: Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Postgres
Rabbet (Y Combinator) | Senior Software Engineer
  • - Remote - Austin (TX) | Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 (9 mos)
  • - Led SLA Tracking, Draw Assessment Questions and a 4x larger data import; contributed to Document Inbox and Document Types projects
  • - Placed first in the company AI hackathon with the Document Inbox team
  • - Delivered full-stack features, root-caused bugs and data issues across the app
  • - Stack: Elixir, Phoenix, GraphQL, React, TypeScript
HG Insights | Senior Software Engineer
  • - Remote - St Barbara (CA) | Aug 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 yr 7 mos)
  • - Built customer-facing and internal features and modernized legacy code
  • - Helped build and maintain open source libraries (Avalanche, Opentelemetry_Avalanche)
  • - Led a major migration effort from Snowpack to Avalanche(Snowflake) improving performance, reliability and maintainability
  • - Stack: Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, GraphQL, Postgres, Snowflake
Divvy | Senior Software Engineer
  • - Remote - Lehi (UT) | Feb 2019 - Jul 2022 (3 yrs 6 mos)
  • - Worked on many projects and fixed many bugs at a fintech offering corporate cards, credit and expense management
  • - Inherited the Mastercard to Visa migration and card order management; revamped and greatly improved the latter
  • - Integrated QuickBooks, Cross River Bank (webhook sync), and identity and address verification APIs
  • - Improved workflows like bulk onboarding and KYC (OFAC)
  • - Stack: Elixir, Phoenix, GraphQL, SQS, Kafka, Postgres
Avant | Software Engineer
  • - Chicago (IL) | Dec 2015 - May 2017 (1 yr 6 mos)
  • - Built CRM features and automated caller workflows
  • - Left on excellent terms to take a three-month trip around the world with my wife (an opportunity I could not miss)
  • - Planned to return, but a small business approached me with a problem I thought I could solve. That was how KASE Consulting started and why I didn't return to Avant
  • - Stack: Ruby on Rails, Postgres
Self Taught Programmer and DevBootcamp
  • - Chicago (IL) | Jun 2014 - Oct 2015 (1 yr 5 mos)
  • - Took self guided programming courses from O'Reilly
  • - Attended Devbootcamp, an immersive, full-time programming bootcamp
  • - Took "Engineering Empathy," the highlight of it all and a course I still draw on daily
ABN AMRO Bank N.V. | Equity Operations Analyst
  • - Chicago (IL) | Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 (2 yrs)
  • - Responsible for a variety of Equity clearing operations, such as daily ADR processing, equity settlements, balancing daily clearing ledgers, among others
  • - Used Excel macros (VBA) to automate over 40 hours weekly for our team

Education

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville | International Business, Minor in Spanish (2007 - 2011)
Full Scholarship (D1 Tennis, #1 Singles) | Internship: Nestle Purina (Summer 2011)