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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 stackBigQuery, 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 modernizationdata 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 GCPPython, 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 retrievalPython + 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 metadataReact 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