# Gaspar Garcia > Head of AI Research at Vercel - Previous Lead Engineer at Quip/Slack/Salesforce ☁️ Computer Science BS/MS @ Stanford🌲 Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gaspar I work on AI at Vercel. Past experience in large-scale data processing and cybersecurity. ## Work Experience ### Head of AI Research, Tech Lead v0 @ Vercel Jan 2025 – Present I lead AI Research at Vercel and general Tech Lead for Vercel v0 ### Staff Software Engineer, AI @ Vercel Jan 2024 – Present ### Product Software Engineer Strategic Projects @ Vercel Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Expertise Next.js/React, web infrastructure, monorepo build tools, AWS infrastructure. Serverless architectures. Data modeling. ### Lead Software Engineer Observability @ Vercel Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Launched Vercel’s observability suite. Expertise in data modeling analytics backends. End to end product development from data ingestion to front end product UI. ### Software Engineer Turbo @ Vercel Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 https://turbo.build at Vercel ### Lead Member Of Technical Staff @ Quip Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area I implemented and lead various projects to integrate Salesforce data into Quip. I worked on the entire stack with special attention to API design. Team Lead - Quip Salesforce Live Data: Live Apps, Live Reports, Live Data Mentions. Expertise in web app performance analysis, Typescript, React, NPM, realtime distributed systems. ### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ Quip Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Team Lead: Quip Live Apps Platform https://quip.com/dev/liveapps ### Member Of Technical Staff @ Quip Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Quip Live Apps platform engineer: https://quip.com/dev/liveapps Various projects enhancing Typescript, NPM build pipeline, Live App SDK development https://quip.com/dev/liveapps/1.x.x/reference Various cybersecurity projects. ### Associate Member Of Technical Staff @ Quip Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Software Infrastructure. Implemented Python encryption utils on Protocol Buffers and MySQL. Mac App development. Frontend feature development built on Quip using React and Salesforce Rest APIs. Iframe and security focus development ### Graduate Researcher on Applied Crypto Group at Stanford University lead by Dan Boneh @ Stanford University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Applied Crypto research and implementation. ### Graduate Researcher on SNAP Group at Stanford InfoLab lead by Jure Leskovec @ Stanford University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, CA Researched low-level graph abstractions and implementations for optimizing Graph Algorithms https://snap.stanford.edu ### Course Assistant, Stanford University Department of Computer Science @ Stanford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 Computer and Network Security (CS155) - Spring 2018 Computer Networking (CS144) - Fall 2016, Fall 2017 From Languages to Information (CS124) - Winter 2017, Winter 2018 ### R&D Intern C++ Infra @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 • Conducted research alongside Bloomberg’s most senior C++ infrastructure team. • Designed and implemented a Lock-Free HashTable and benchmarked performance against existing implementations. My design, written in C++, outperformed all lock-based concurrent HashTables. • Enabled the company to continue my research to develop extremely fast concurrent storage and access tools necessary for their goal to provide speedy financial data delivery. • Required expertise on Atomic Operations, Memory Order Guarantees and Lock-Free Memory Reclamation. ### R&D Intern @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York My work was focused on developing high speed data delivery service matching throughput required for financial data. • Designed and deployed a publish-subscribe system over a RabbitMQ cluster that reduces the number of network connections, decreases maintenance issues, and increases scalability of the current infrastructure. • Developed a thread-safe API that automatically connects to the cluster, gracefully resolves connection errors, and abstracts away reconnection attempts without interrupting client. • Design was focused on easily integrated code that doesn’t affect current client logic flow. • Enabled easier communication between machines based across the world. ### Co President @ Latinos Unidos of Stanford Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Stanford Latinos Unidos de Stanford strives to equally celebrate all Latin American cultures and ethnicities at Stanford. We pride ourselves with promoting a more inclusive, diverse and united Latino community on campus. Every year we organize fun social and cultural programming about the various Latin American cultures. Our webpage is located at latinosunidos.stanford.edu ### Product Development Intern @ Symantec Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Data Loss Prevention Team - Server development using ZeroMQ. - Using Hadoop and Cassandra to mine massive datasets and perform data analysis. - Developed a Graphical User Interface using D3.js visualization library to develop meaningful representations of analytics. - Applying and developing machine learning algorithms to predict and generate insights relevant to the client's use case and industry. ### Software Developer @ Optical Communications Satellite Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Stanford Student Space Initiative Developing encoding schemes and software to enable CubeSats to communicate via LED. Programming is primarily done in C. This is a student led project part of the Stanford Student Space Initiative. ### Fuel Source Development Leader @ Stanford Chem-E-Car Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Stanford University Leading the design and implementation of a fuel source to power our car in the AICHE National Chem-E-Car Competition. Our team built an eco-friendly battery using lemon juice to power our car in the 2014 competition. ### Fellow @ Stanford University Department of Chemistry Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Kanan Lab My research involved the design of Gold-Copper alloy catalysts that can efficiently reduce carbon dioxide to liquid based fuels such as ethanol. I focused on varying methods of nano particle synthesis. My exploration built upon the work in the Kanan Lab that developed a reduced Copper Oxide catalyst. I succeeded in developing a catalyst with increased selectivity of ethanol production at equivalent low over potentials to other catalysts. ### Event Leader @ Lakewood Country Club Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Lakewood, CA Lead the execution of various banquet events at the Lakewood Country Club. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) Stanford University ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science (Theory) Stanford University ### Long Beach Polytechnic High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gaspargarcia --- Source: https://flows.cv/gaspar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gaspar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31