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Golda Velez

Golda Velez

Sr Software Engineer getting the AIs to work for us. Writing at GoldaVelez.org. Passion projects: LinkedTrust.us and RaisetheVoices.org. The bar I hang out in is called “Bluesky”

Angel and Advisor at LinkedTrust

Tucson, Arizona, United States🇺🇸
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Sr Software Engineer, Architect and Communicator interested in human rights advocacy, advising startups, tech for good, politics, writing. Interested in chatting/writing about/collaborating on any project that makes positive systemic change.

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Career: 20

Angel and Advisor

LinkedTrust

Jan 2019 - Present

Applying LLM Agent and RAG pipelines to extract structured credentials from narrative and PDF data sources. Originators of LinkedClaims, an emerging high level standard in development getting traction in diverse domains of Learning Credentials, Supply Chain & Impact Validation. In discussions to have a new IEEE standard for Issuer Registry using progressive trust layering. Business development, landing grants and winning competitive bids for software development.

Staff Software Engineer

You.com

United States

Jan 2026 - Present

We'll see, possibly swallowing the ocean.

Executive Board Member & Co-founder

Civ.works

Nov 2016 - Present

Advising and assisting as needed with strategy and networking. Glad to serve on the board with George Polisner and co!

Sr Software Engineer

Turquoise Health

Jan 2025 - Jan 2026

Creating transparency in health care pricing! Designing data models and pipelines to make the best use of domain-specific Agentic AI.

Sr Software Engineer

3Box Labs

Mar 2022 - Oct 2024

Watching the bytes go by. I do observability. Specifically - ceramicnetwork/observability package, produce weekly metrics for executive meeting, on-call and support for decentralized node operators. Have worked with growth team, diagnosing issues with performance, onboarding flows for operators. Typescript, python, terraform, ansible. Some rust.

Sr Software Engineer - Data Platform

Uber

Jan 2021 - Nov 2021

Order Platform Team - data pipes!

Sr Software Engineer - Risk

Postmates Inc.

San Francisco Bay Area

Jul 2018 - Jan 2021

Fighting the bad guys

Sr Software Engineer

Crowdpac

Oct 2015 - Apr 2018

Designed and led implementation of a pandas-based pipeline for cleaning, normalizing and resolving campaign finance data and donor features. Also ML/analysis. Stack: Python/pandas/MySQL on AWS/ Flask/Google APIs

Sr Software Engineer

Junyo

remote

Jun 2013 - Oct 2015

Data and analytics. Designed event data processing system to pull events from Moodle and perform real-time reporting with strong privacy protections. Also Django-based system for gathering educational objects and mapping to multiple curricula. Stack: Django/ MySQL/ Nginx; Django Rest Framework; scrapy

Founder

Internet WorkShop

Jan 1995 - Jan 2014

Internet Workshop, a search technology company. Licensee and developer of Webglimpse and Glimpse local search engines. Lectured, created websites, administered servers for approx 100 clients. Created customized search and document management solution for National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. Led projects of 2-5 programmers for various client projects. Perl, PHP, MySQL, Javascript primarily. Some Java. Innovated techniques using compressed bit vectors to speed up category browsing and searching. Wrote freelance articles for Linux Journal, Wall St & Technology and Semantic Report. "The Searchable Site" - https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8379

Head of Platform

AttorneyFee.com

San Francisco

Nov 2012 - Jun 2013

Implemented spider/votes system for aggregating data from disparate sources. Scraped, cleaned, normalized and imported approximately 1M attorney data points from individual bar associations and other sources. Stack: Django/MySQL, Highcharts

Sr Software Engineer, contract

Oracle Corp

Tucson, AZ

Mar 2012 - Nov 2012

Designed and implemented REST interface in Perl for management of large scale data storage systems (SAN/NAS)

Data Engineer

Factual, Inc

Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

Contractor

Pillar Data Systems

May 2010 - Jan 2011

Head of Engineering

Disruptive Logic, Ltd

Jan 2008 - Aug 2010

a New York based startup company in the area of personalization and recommendation systems. Managed team, wrote backend for recommendation system in Java and Perl using RESTlet framework. Wrote "poor man's classifier" to do sentiment analysis using configurable rules in XML. Retrieved mashup data using Eventful, Yelp, Amazon APIs. Debugged issues with YUI-based Javascript front end. Designed architecture for producing optimized recommendations for combinations of friends in a social network. Wrote PRD and SOW documents for clients. Wrote small Facebook application.

volunteer

US Council for Burma

2006 - 2007

Software Engineer

CompuRAD

Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

user interface in C++ for imaging application. Interfaced with code from 4-5 other engineers providing image processing, database interface, printer interface. Had dumb idea to create the UI as a DTD, implemented that way instead of using a RAD tool. Project was successful anyway.

Support Engineer

Artisoft

Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

LANtastic networking assembly code. Specialized in tracing bugs in NetBIOS layer. Worked closely with test engineering group and provided in-house beta testing for new versions. Managed relationship with the vendors for Lantastic for Macintosh and our OEM'd TCP/IP stack. Supervised small development project of a user interface/installation program.

System Administrator and programmer

Caltech

Jan 1991 - Jan 1992

Sun workstation and wrote scripts to use DNA and protein sequence matching algorithms. Also wrote small application 'GeneBook' in DBASEIII+ on Windows to manage sequence repository.

Programmer

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Sep 1990 - Feb 1991

Wrote C code to do real-time imaging on OC-300 processing board.

Skills: 100

Technical

Django REST FrameworkEclipseGitGo (Programming Language)golangHTMLjQueryKubernetes
OS XPostgreSQLRESTRubySolidityTerraformweb3

Other

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAnsibleApache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataBusiness Strategy
Business-to-Business (B2B)C/C++C++C++ LanguageCEOsCloud ComputingCommunicationCommunity EngagementCommunity ManagementComputer ScienceCSSData AnalysisData AnalyticsData EngineeringData PipelinesData ProcessingDatabasesDesign PatternsDeveloper RelationsDjangoDrupalEngineering ManagementEntrepreneurshipExecutive CoachingExecutive ManagementFraud DetectionFraud PreventionFull-Stack DevelopmentGenerative AIGo-to-Market StrategyGrowth StrategiesHigh Performance Computing (HPC)InfrastructureJavaScriptLAMPLarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)Large Language Models (LLM)LLaMAMachine LearningNatural Language UnderstandingNegotiationNetwork ProtocolsNode.jsOOPOpen-Source DevelopmentPattern RecognitionPerlPHPProblem SolvingProfessional MentoringProgrammingProject ManagementPrompt EngineeringPublic SpeakingPythonReal-time DataReliabilityResearch SkillsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Risk AnalyticsShell ScriptingSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Software DesignSoftware DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureSQLStrategic CommunicationsStrategic PlanningStrategySystems DesignTeam LeadershipTeam ManagementTypeScriptUser Interface DesignWeb ApplicationsWeb DevelopmentXML

Credentials: 4

Aug 2024

Certificate of Completion

Community Sponsorship Essentials

May 2024

Verified Human

NotABot by IDPartner

Jan 2024

Education: 1

University High School

Education

1987

Activities / Societies: United States Physics Olympiad Team, alternate

Volunteering: 1

educational champion

FosterEd

Jul 2016 - Present

Advocate for a young man in foster care in terms of his academics and educational resources. Also get on him to study and stay out of trouble.

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