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Gonzalo (Glo)Maldonado

Principal AI Platform Engineer, ZoomInfo. Advisor to Timecopilot (Character Labs) and Diagnovet (500 Global)

Career

  • Principal AI Platform Engineer, ZoomInfo

    Current role. The AI platform where hundreds of engineers execute billions of agentic runs a day

  • Startup advisor, Sanscourier

    Current. Advising founders from top startups

  • Former co-founder & CTO, Mocksi

    Raised $1.5M from a16z Speedrun, Character Labs, Deftly and Upside Partnership. Shipped three products in 18 months. In testing, they cut demo prep from months to days

  • Ran $42M of engineering, five teams

    Five teams built from zero for Uber, Zenefits, Oracle, Cisco and Akamai. Fractional VP of Engineering at Akava.io

  • On the team through 4 exits

    Yammer → Microsoft $1.2B, Nextdoor IPO, FireHydrant → Freshworks, Do.com → Amazon

  • Scaled Nextdoor for 3x traffic in 60 days

    Held 99.99% uptime through the COVID surge. Then grew registrations 20% at half the acquisition cost

Results

  • Diagnovet: raised a seed round from 500 Global

    I advised the founders through it. “Glo helped us sharpen our pitch and our strategy before we raised.” Soledad Alborno, Co-Founder

  • Timecopilot: accepted to Character Labs

    I advised the founders through it. “Glo tore our pitch apart, rebuilt it, and made the intros. We got into Character Labs.” Azul Garza, Co-CEO

  • Built Layernetes and shipped it to production in a weekend

    Solo. A bare-metal Kubernetes cloud for AI agents that runs the AI floor at Frontier Tower. “One of the most attractive benefits of the floor.” Devinder Sodhi, floor lead

  • Shipped ParibusAI for Western Michigan University

    An AI tutor on the school's own hardware: no per-student API bill, and no student data leaves campus. The professor kept building on it

  • Re-architected Yammer push notifications

    1B+ events a day, 10s → 80ms delivery. The app's App Store rating rose a full star and downloads grew

  • Created first Terraform provider for OCI

    Adopted as Oracle's official provider. 140M+ downloads on the Terraform Registry

  • Built Cisco Shipped

    A Heroku-like platform on a Kubernetes/Mesos hybrid, 100% open source. Cisco rolled it out to a handful of Fortune 500 customers

From the first commit to the IPO

Founding engineer at Revel. Tech lead through Nextdoor's IPO. Former co-founder and CTO at Mocksi. Now I build AI platforms at ZoomInfo, and through Sanscourier I advise founders while they raise. I still write the code.

Book time

A complex recursive system seeking meaning.

Someone who cares that the gear engages and that the switches lock.

Be curious, not judgmental. There is no spoon.

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