Portfolio / 2026Santiago de Chile → Remote

Building quiet systems
& painting loud pictures

Senior engineer with a decade at the seams of product, platform, and consultancy. Off-hours, I paint portraits and still-lifes that argue with each other.

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I bridge the space between technical rigor and artistic intuition — shipping scalable systems by day, chasing chiaroscuro by night.

Stack
javascalareactawsnodespringkubernetesgcpgithub actionspostgres
Interests
djing·guitar·music·painting·workout
/ 01 · Work

Field notes.

  1. 2024

    Factor

    Senior Software Engineer · feb — dec '24

    Full-stack delivery across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure — shipping features for customers in an event-driven AWS architecture. Drove new initiatives and focus areas; shared learnings across the team to lift collective skill.

    Java 19ReactAWS LambdaEvent-driven
    01
  2. 2022

    Premise

    Senior Software Engineer · jul '22 — feb '24

    Contributed to 20+ core services in Scala, led a testing process overhaul, and migrated CI/CD to GitHub Actions.

    ScalaTapirDoobieGCP
    02
  3. 2019

    Thoughtworks

    Senior Consultant · apr '19 — mar '22

    Led diverse software projects, coached engineers, and developed high-scale services for major retailers.

    NodeReactNext.jsKubernetesGCP
    03
  4. 2016

    Bouju

    Software Engineer · oct '16 — nov '18

    R&D at a small team modernizing the Bouju platform: migrated a monolith to a Spring Boot service-based architecture, built an NLP service classifying websites, integrated research-tool APIs, and set up Jenkins/Artifactory.

    JavaSpring BootMySQLApache OpenNLPAWS
    04
  5. 2014

    Nisum

    Software Engineer · feb '14 — oct '16

    Consulted onshore and offshore for Gap Inc. Full-stack and SME on inventory, fulfillment, and point-of-sale systems for North American and international stores.

    JavaSpringAngularJSElasticsearchJenkins
    05
/ 02 · Projects

Side quests.

Currently building

AI voice agents orchestrating phone calls — natural-sounding conversation infrastructure for the telephone.

twilioelevenlabsgcpgithub actions
elementary

Cellular Automata

An interactive study of Wolfram's rule sets — simple local logic producing endless complexity. Rule 30, the signature.

rule
030
elementary · wolframlearn more
javascriptcanvasmathematics
Archive
  • Crowdgestions

    sep 2024 — jun 2025

    A feedback management platform giving product teams dedicated portals to collect feature requests, bug reports, and improvement ideas. Custom-branded boards, per-platform/region tracking, and a user voting system.

    next.jsreactnodetypescriptpostgrestailwindcloud runcloud sql
  • Eazyprompt

    archived

    A lightweight prompt-crafting utility.

    next.jsnodegcpgithub actions
  • WhoMixed

    nov 2014 — apr 2015

    Crawled DJ setlist sites to suggest songs that make good matches based on transitions other DJs had already performed.

    pythonscrapynodemongodbangularjs
  • Savethegram

    deprecated

    Chrome extension to manage, search, and save Instagram saved items. No longer supported.

    chromejavascript
/ 04 · Contact

Say hello.

Open to collaborations, senior engineering roles, commissions, and genuinely curious conversation about code or canvas.

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Email
gonzalo.arsm@gmail.com
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