01/Résumé·New York, NY · Remote · Barcelona, Spain · EU
William Gonzalez.
Cloud Architect / Principal Software Engineer
[email protected]·+1 267 241 6872·www.williamgc.com
Cloud Architect / Principal Engineer. A decade fluent across the GCP stack — BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, Vertex AI, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Terraform, GCS — comfortable wherever the work goes. Host the infrastructure teams depend on, orchestrate 200+ processes daily at ~1 TB, and deploy ML end-to-end. Replace fragile manual workflows with cloud-native systems that cut team time, expand capacity, and stay at competitive cost.
02/Experience
Cloud Architect / Principal Software Engineer·LS Direct Marketing
2026 – Present·New York
Leading GCP modernization across data, ML, and internal platforms — metadata-driven systems internal teams run themselves.
- Lead enterprise GCP modernization — data infrastructure, ML systems, and internal tooling across the company.Enterprise-scale cloud platform ownership
- Standardized metadata-driven architectures — business and ops teams change workflow logic without engineering tickets.Self-service ops for non-engineers
- Centralized React + Python apps on App Engine + BigQuery — pipeline monitoring, log/error analysis, data validation, metadata control, reporting.One UI replaces a wall of dashboards
Cloud Architect / Principal Software Engineer·Herglez SL
2023 – 2026·Barcelona, Spain
Cloud architecture and automation for enterprise data and cloud-native deployments.
- Scalable GCP architectures for enterprise data operations and cloud-native deployments.Production-grade cloud-native platforms
- Infra automation and engineering standards — predictable releases, less drift between environments.Predictable, repeatable releases
- Cloud platform optimization — scalability, observability, production reliability.Stronger SLOs and operational visibility
Data Scientist, Data Insights Department·LS Direct Marketing
2021 – 2023·New York
Led the company's migration from legacy Alteryx / MySQL to a cloud-native GCP stack — data engineering, ML, reporting, internal apps.
- Led company-wide migration from Alteryx / MySQL to cloud- native GCP — Python, BigQuery, Airflow, PySpark, Terraform, Dataproc. POC scaled to production architecture.$100M+ org adopted the proposed stack
- Rebuilt ROI reporting end-to-end on Django + BigQuery + Python — on-demand, formatted, no human in the loop.30 min → 20 s per report · 8 h → 2 min company-wide
- Automated mover modeling on PySpark + Airflow — parallel training, retraining, and scoring driven by metadata, with imbalance correction built in.100+ client campaigns in parallel · terabytes / week
Analyst, Investment Department·IronHold Capital
2020 – 2021·New York
Statistical and predictive models for investment research.
- Python financial models estimating corporate performance across multiple sectors.Models drove sector-level investment calls
- Quant research using Bloomberg, FactSet, SEC filings, and alternative data sources.
- Equity research reports backed by proprietary models and statistical insight.
Research Assistant, Machine Learning·Temple University
2019 – 2020·Philadelphia
ML research for quantitative finance and deep hedging.
- Deep Hedging models with recurrent neural networks to hedge Delta.Novel RNN-based hedging research
- ML applications for quantitative finance and hedging strategies.
- Predictive modeling on structured + unstructured financial data.
Risk IT Developer·SOLVENTIS A.V. SA
2018·Barcelona, Spain
Financial risk systems and reporting automation.
- Automated Reuters data retrieval — Python + Jupyter + SQL Server with Slack alerts, replacing manual workflows.~€60K saved annually
- Risk calculation systems in Java, Excel VBA, Wolfram Mathematica, Python — robust, scalable, audited.Production risk engine
- Eliminated repetitive financial ops — faster reporting cycles, lower error rate, more analyst time on analysis.Hours of manual work / week recovered
Infrastructure Analyst·Accenture
2016 – 2017·Barcelona, Spain
Banking infrastructure and reporting operations.
- Automated reporting cycle with VBA tooling for a major banking client.3 weeks → 1 day
- Project manager on the daily GTR project — primary liaison between bank managers and the IT team, weekly reporting to Executive Board.Owned client comms for largest GTR account
- Coordinated 8 bank departments to standardize income data from 14 sources into a unified ETL format.14 source systems unified
03/Selected projects
Enterprise Cloud Modernization Program
2022 — 2024
Company-wide migration from Alteryx / MySQL to a cloud-native GCP stack. Started as a POC, became the production architecture of a $100M+ org.
Stack · gcp · bigquery · airflow · cloud-composer · pyspark · terraform · dataproc · gcs · python · cloud-migration
Cortex
2023 — 2024
Single operational interface for DAGs, BigQuery state, logs, and metadata — React on App Engine. Ops teams self-serve without engineering.
Stack · app-engine · react · python · bigquery · mysql · gcs · airflow · dags · gcp · internal-tools
Automated Mover Modeling System
2021 — 2022
Metadata-driven ML platform — parallel training, retraining, and scoring of 100s of models on PySpark + Airflow, controlled from a UI.
Stack · machine-learning · pyspark · airflow · metadata-driven · model-orchestration · imbalanced-classification · retraining · scoring
ROI and QBR Reporting Automation
2020 — 2022
ROI reports cut from minutes / hours to seconds. QBR PowerPoint decks built in under a minute.
Stack · reporting · automation · roi · qbr · powerpoint · django · react · bigquery · python · analytics
04/Skills
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- Google Cloud Platform · BigQuery · Dataproc · Cloud Composer · App Engine · Terraform
- Programming & Frameworks
- Python · SQL · PySpark · Django · React · TypeScript
- Data Engineering
- Apache Airflow · ETL / ELT · Distributed Processing · Metadata-Driven Architecture · CI/CD
- Machine Learning & AI
- Scikit-learn · TensorFlow · Vertex AI · Forecasting · Recommendation Systems
- Platform Engineering
- Internal Tools · Pipeline Monitoring · Data Validation · Operational Dashboards · Self-Service Tooling
05/Education
Temple University - Fox School of Business
2018 – 2020·Philadelphia, USA
Master of Science in Quantitative Finance & Risk Management
GPA: 3.79 / 4.0. Focus areas: Financial Time Series, Asset Pricing, Quantitative Portfolios, Derivatives, and Stochastic Volatility.
University of La Salle
2009 – 2015·Barcelona, Spain
Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Engineering
Computer Science / Software Engineering foundation with focus areas in programming, mathematics, statistics, physics, algorithms, and systems engineering.
06/Languages
Spanish · Native·Catalan · Native·English · Fluent