Debugging Threads
a tech blog by Cristian Gonzalez
Hey there ! I’m a Staff SE, specialized in backend development, my interests are:
Multi-threading, Distributed Systems, Parallel & Stream processing,
Data Engineering, ML Ops, and Infrastructure
APIs, Microservices, Applications,
My typical techstack: Java, Python, RDBMS/NoSQL, Spark, Kafka, AWS, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Solr, MySql, Storm,
What I do
My range of collaboration is close to code and implementation. I like to build and use the technology that fits best to the problem and the team behind, considering future maintainability, testability, scaling & growth profile.
This blog
I made this Blog as a Portfolio to showcase my dedication history for occasional colleges. On real goals, I learn fast, get seriously deep into problems, and strive to build a solution, for team success, which ultimately makes me happy.
Read about my IT journey, real stories on Software Engineering…
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Image Analysis: A Nudity Moderation architecture
What happens when massive amount of users attacks your Social Network with offensive pictures ? You have to design a robust and automatic solution:

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Data Engineering: A Lambda Architecture for Ingestion
A platform SaaS evolution from spared grouped of services into a full-fledged data processing pipeline for Marketing companies:

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AdNetworks: A RT User Segmentation Service
Working for an Ad Network, we needed to augment data from visitors to our clients, this story tells that experience:

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ML Ops: Speeding up Delivery Decoupling Airflow for GenAI
How I reengineered the backbone of a NLP training pipeline from hours to minutes

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Microservices: Reengineering a Middleware MQ with Kafka
About to land into a massive new market, we had the challenge to inherit and support a legacy prototype OR enable the Business Landing with a Scalable Solution.
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Scalability: Tunning Spark for Performance
This’s a story about tunning and resizing Apache Spark clusters on EMR, for reducing unnecessary AWS budget from our Food Marketplace.
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A Stealth Crawler on Steroids
How I enabled Marketing insights for price competition, with a price-observer crawler willing to avoid Red and Blue security teams.