HI, MY NAME IS GONZALO

I’m a design-minded engineer at Columbia University studying Mechanical Engineering with minors in Computer Science and Aerospace. At Kimberly-Clark, I overhauled how plants read and used data from 20-year-old machines. Replacing scattered spreadsheets with a single web pipeline on the official company site, so downtime and scrap are visible and actionable from anywhere. At Chromie Health, I built a messaging-first scheduling system with live calendar updates that made schedule swaps smoother and cut wasted back-and-forth. I worked directly with the CEO and layered in AI to make the messaging feel human-like. I build things end-to-end: design the part, make it, write the code, test it, and put it to work.

I row on Columbia’s Division-I lightweight team and I’m big on endurance: marathons, Ironman 70.3, and the occasional “why not?” challenge. Off the water I’m usually on the move: traveling, picking up new languages, and chasing a little adrenaline, from long mountain-bike descents to skydives and the quiet focus of a scuba dive. The same rhythm drives my work: show up, iterate, measure, improve. This site is a quick tour of what I’ve built and what I’m learning next. If something here sparks an idea, let’s connect.