# Ruben Gonzalez

> Serial Entrepreneur, Past: Stripe, YC, Google

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

Entrepreneur and passionate about the creation of new products and ideas.

## Work Experience
### Product Engineer @ Runway
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Founder @ Urise AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Personal AI English Coach

### Tech Lead @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
stripe.com/identity

### Consultant @ Self-Employed
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Helping startups build better and faster

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Fibo, Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
* Built a modern tech stack using React Native (iOS & Android), React (Web Dashboard), Serverless backend with Firebase Realtime Database & Microservices (Amazon Lambda Functions & Google Cloud Functions) using Node.js.
* Recruited, managed and led two full-time engineers (1 onsite and 1 remote).
* Fibo raised seed funding from Y-Combinator (W17), Fuel Capital, Global Founders Capital, and several prominent angel investors.

### Software Engineer @ Thumbtack
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Member of a small team improving the Pro Android app and building the Customer Android app.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
Next Generation of Google Calendar for Android

* Member of a small team who developed and launched the app in November 2014 and several updates after.
* Led the improvement of performance, the creation of Material Design UI, Material Design motion and a whole new tablet layout, receiving very good feedback from my team and the company.
* Led the knowledge transfer as the team started ramping up new engineers in Zurich, Switzerland.
* Increased the average Play Store Rating working proactively with UX-PM team in critical features (prototyping, developing and launching them).
* The app was listed in best mobile apps of 2014 by “fastcodesign.com” and best material design android apps by “theverge.com”.

### Founder @ GraphicsApp
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Self Employed
* GrahicsApp was a software agency of 3 designers and 2 engineers.
* Developed more than 60 projects in just two years with 36% of them with repeat clients.
* Developed projects for clients from U.S., Australia, UK, Singapore, Germany, Denmark and others.
* Learned the latest technologies as html5 canvas, websocket, webgl, Unity3d, Microsoft Kinect SDK, Facebook API.

### Teaching Assistant @ Web Oriented Object group (University of Havana)
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Web Object Oriented group (Research group at University of Havana)
* Taught “Introduction to Programming” course to freshman students using C# and Object Oriented Design.
* Mentored advanced students for programming contests.
* Researched on computer graphics topics and physics engines


## Education
### Y Combinator

### Bachelor of Science (BS) (7 semesters completed) in Bachelor of Computer Sciences
University of Havana


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rubengt01

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Source: https://flows.cv/rubengonzalez
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rubengonzalez/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-30