Golda Velez

Experience

Exit

Crowdpac

Principal Software Engineer 2015 - 2018 (over 2 years)

Designed and built messy data handling to normalize and process campaign finance data;
improved name handling over currently available HumanName python module.

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Founder

Internet WorkShop, LinkedTrust.us, Civ.Works Tech Team

Employee

Factual, Junyo, Oracle, Alternate, Civ.Works Tech Team, Postmates, Uber, 3Box Labs, LinkedTrust.us, You.com, Crowdpac

Education

About

Achievements

- Designed an observability system for decentralized networks

- When working for Oracle on a plugin project, also converted our cli interface for managing large-scale SAN/NAS devices into a REST api over a long weekend.

- Came up with a sentiment analysis method that would highlight what unusual item users particularly liked about merchants in a review corpus.

- Spidered & cleaned 1.1M US Restaurants, all of Israel and Chile under deadline (Factual)

- Founded startup LinkedTrust with novel shared governance & equity thru Fairmint

- Primary author of Webglimpse

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Advertising Agile AJAX Apache Cassandra Architect C CMS Coding CSS CVS Data Analysis Django Document Management Engineering XML Git Hbase HTML Internet Javascript Linux Management MySQL Networking Node.js Oracle Perl PostgreSQL Programming Project Management Python Regular Expressions REST Ruby on Rails Software Software Development Statistics SQL Subversion Support Svn System Administration Test Use Cases User Interface Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/Scikit-learn Apache Hadoop Beta Testing Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Imaging NodeJS Project Manager Redhat Storage Area Networks Services Team Lead Amazon Web Services Apache Web Server Email Facebook Github HTTPS JSON Microsoft Windows ML noSQL postgres RDF Android Development Backend Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Mobile Development QA Testing Software Architecture Web Development iOS Development AWS Lambda React Native Python/Django/Flask Machine Learning Data Science Python R MongoDB UI/UX Design UI Design SCSS / SASS Meteor MeteorJS / NodeJS Mailchimp API Mailchimp Blockchain Blockchain Technology Blockchain architecture AWS/Lambda/DynamoDB/Cognito Natural Language Processing Affectiva RESTful API React/GraphQL/Relay Mobile Application Design Corporate Social Responsibility Socially Responsible Investing Business Development Business Requirement gathering

Locations

Toronto San Francisco

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

The 10-Day MBA; also Joel on Software.

What's your favorite non-business book?

Catch-22

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Running RaiseTheVoices, a human rights initiative to tie journalist reports of abuse to direct fundraising on the ground for affected individuals and magnify the words of folks who are imprisoned/killed for being outspoken.

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Keep going, and don't assume that someone else will do it better.

Golda Velez

Sr Software Engineer/team lead/CTO with broad experience. Data pipelines, AI/ML, kafka, cloud. Python/Pandas/CloudAI/Django; Node.js/React. Caltech AMa