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Gabriel Garcia

Member of Technical Staff - Agent infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud platforms

Hey! I’m Gabriel, a backend infrastructure engineer in New York. I work on agent infrastructure, distributed systems, NewSQL storage, petabyte-scale migrations, and platforms that need to stay boringly reliable.

About

I build infrastructure platforms for teams pushing scale, reliability, and product velocity.

My recent work spans agent infrastructure, storage-as-a-service, HBase to TiDB migrations, Kafka re-architecture, zero-downtime launches, and security systems for high-value infrastructure. I like turning scattered access patterns and production pain into clear platforms with SLOs, migration playbooks, and sane on-call ownership.

Timeline

A map of the path so far

Jul 4, 2026 - Present

OpenAI

OpenAI - Agent Infrastructure - New York, NY

Joined as a Member of Technical Staff on Agent Infrastructure, building systems for training and deploying agentic models across research and production.

Sep 2022 - Jul 4, 2026

Pinterest

Pinterest - Storage Services and Data Engineering - Manhattan, NY

  • Staff Software EngineerMar 14, 2026 - Jul 4, 2026
  • Senior Software EngineerMar 19, 2024 - Mar 14, 2026
  • Software EngineerSep 2022 - Mar 19, 2024

Joined as a mid-level engineer and grew into Staff while building storage-as-a-service foundations, leading petabyte-scale HBase to TiDB migrations, launching revenue-critical ads storage, and founding a storage platform team.

2019 - Sep 2022

Google

Google - Authorization Services - Sunnyvale, CA

  • Software Engineer2021 - Sep 2022
  • Software Engineer, New Grad2020 - 2021
  • Software Engineering Intern2019

Returned full-time after internship and was promoted one year later. Worked on Authorization Services, Cloud IAP, Multiparty Authorization, zero-trust security infrastructure, and privilege-escalation detection.

June 2020

Graduated from College

University of California, Santa Cruz

Graduated with a computer science background after studying systems, infrastructure, security, computer vision, mobile apps, and high-performance data structures.

2018

Flight Software Engineering Intern

Space Systems Loral - San Jose, CA

Wrote telemetry command categorization tools, automated flight-simulator workflows with Python, designed a third-stage bootloader for custom kernels, and worked on drivers for a custom Linux install.

2017 - 2018

Software Engineering Student

Google Code U - Santa Cruz, CA

Built a team chat app with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, implemented message-emotion analysis with Google Cloud, and helped design the application interface.

2016

Started College

University of California, Santa Cruz

Started at UC Santa Cruz and began building the foundation that led into distributed systems, infrastructure, security, computer vision, and mobile development.

Stack

Languages and technologies

Languages

Java, Golang, Python, C

Databases

MySQL, TiDB, NewSQL, HBase, NoSQL, RocksDB, Redis, Memcached

Infrastructure

Kafka, CDC, Flink, Iceberg, Hive, stream processing, batch processing, EKS

Systems

OLTP, OLAP, storage services, data engineering, authorization, zero-trust infrastructure