Gilbert Mena
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarGilbert Mena is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, currently serving as Fractional CTO and tech/product advisor at motivQ. He has led engineering teams across diverse domains—from matchmaking platforms to pioneering automated drone traffic control at AirMap and scaling calling and wireless services at TextNow to expand affordable cellular access. A hands-on architect and operator, Gilbert has driven migrations to containerized microservices, moved platforms from AWS to Azure, and re-architected legacy services into Go/gRPC while defining SLAs, HA/DR strategies and observability practices. He pairs technical depth in backend, mobile and infra with a people-first leadership style, a love of storytelling, and an unusual career arc that spans predictive analytics, transportation safety, and consumer social products.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (83)
raspberry10
freeswitch10
transformation9
directives9
vs-code9
unlock9
sip9
ide9
multi-core9
telephony9
voip9
webrtc9
development-environment9
angular-js9
telecom8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hibrid/statemachine2
Dec 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
hibrid/kbcli
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
GO client library for Kill Bill
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
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