# Carlos Gonzalez

> Software Engineer @ Zip

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carlosgonzalez

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zip Intake-to-Procure
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Full stack engineer working across backend, front end, and data projects throughout the company with experience leading teams.
- Founding payments product team member building and maintaining critical features such as bill approval, purchase orders, field configuration, notifications, and data warehouse models. Helped bring the P2P SKU from 0->XXM ARR.
- Lead on core vendor product owning and delivering improvements to the contracts, renewal, and buyer vendor surface area
- [Current] Founding team member on emerging product

### Software & Data Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Worked across backend (Java services) & data (Airflow) to do the following:
- Improved Homepage configuration-driven-UI & monitoring/alerting
- Built the only contextual component on the Homepage w/ engagement capping & ranking features
- Worked with Policy to rapidly implement a geo-targeting COVID alerting system
- Built the framework for educational components across the guest surfaces
- Worked on Airbnb Experiences data, product, & search

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Rice University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Student Computing Consultant @ Rice University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Computer Engineering Summer Researcher @ Rice University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Houston, Texas

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, California
Worked on the Newsfeed integrity team and:
- Built a UI tool to better evaluate comment ranking A/B experiments
- Proposed and implemented the first ML-based comment ranking system by individually building the data collection pipelines, iterating on feature selection, and tuning a model

### Engineering Practicum Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California
Worked on Google Photos to implement a generic collage creation framework which automatically creates themed collages with different layouts for users to save.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Rice University

### Flintridge Preparatory School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carlosgonzalez18

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Last updated: 2026-04-05