# Gonzalo Ríos > Director of AI Platform. I lead the platform that lets Rebrandly's engineers ship AI-written code to production safely. I've been keeping servers alive for fifteen years. - Write me an email: - LinkedIn: - HTML: - Español: ## About ### Hi, I'm Gonzalo. *aka Gonzalito* Director of AI Platform at Rebrandly. My team builds the paved road for AI-assisted engineering: coding agents with the right context and permissions, automated review, guardrails and CI/CD gates, so code written with AI reaches production as safely as any other. I got here through fifteen years of DevOps and SRE. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS are still my daily tools, and I write Go and Python to automate everything that should not need a human. **Quick facts** - **Based in:** Barcelona, Spain - **Role:** Director of AI Platform · Rebrandly - **Focus:** Coding agents · Guardrails · Safe delivery - **In production since:** 2011 - **Worked from:** Chile · New Zealand · Spain - **My team:** USA · Canada · Spain · Italy · Ireland · Ukraine · Pakistan > From bare-metal servers to AI platforms. Code written with AI should ship like any other: reviewed, tested, secure and reversible, so teams move faster without gambling with production. ## Skills Twenty-eight elements in six families, from the AI layer down to the metal. Pick a family to light it up, or select a tile to read about it. ### AI - **Claude** — The model behind our coding agents and internal tooling. One of my top skills. - **MCP** — Giving coding agents safe, scoped access to internal tools and data. - **AI agents** — Coding agents that open real pull requests, with humans reviewing what ships. - **LLM evals** — Measuring what agents produce before it reaches production. ### Languages & APIs - **Golang** — My go-to for high-throughput services, like an API that writes hundreds of thousands of records in under a second. - **Python** — Automation, tooling and glue between systems. - **PHP** — Years of backend work with Symfony and Silex, plus the hosting world it powers. - **Bash** — The duct tape of every server I have ever touched. - **GraphQL** — Exposing services to product teams with typed contracts. - **gRPC** — Fast service-to-service communication. ### Cloud - **AWS** — My main cloud: compute, storage, networking and serverless. - **Amazon ECS** — Migrated legacy services to ECS with auto-scaling. - **AWS Lambda** — Event-driven glue and lightweight services. - **DigitalOcean** — Part of the hybrid infrastructure behind Silverhost. - **WAF** — Rolled out a web application firewall to stop bad traffic early. ### Systems & containers - **Linux** — Administering Linux servers since 2011. - **Docker** — Ran a custom Docker cloud with more than 15,000 containers. - **Kubernetes** — Orchestrating containers when the scale calls for it. - **Xen** — Managed Xen virtualization for a hosting provider. - **Nginx** — Web serving and reverse proxying, everywhere. ### Automation & CI/CD - **Terraform** — Infrastructure as code, and co-author of a Terraform provider v1.0. - **Ansible** — Configuration management for fleets of servers. - **GitHub Actions** — The CI/CD gates every change passes, whether a person or an agent wrote it. - **GitLab CI/CD** — Pipelines that cut deployment times dramatically. ### Data & streaming - **ClickHouse** — Analytics at scale. One of my top skills. - **Apache Kafka** — Streaming events between services. One of my top skills. - **DynamoDB** — Single-digit-millisecond storage for high-volume APIs. - **MySQL** — The relational workhorse behind countless sites. ## Work From the AI platform I lead today back to the systems that taught me how to run production. Open a panel to see more. ### AI Platform *Rebrandly · 2025 – present* The paved road for AI-assisted engineering at Rebrandly: coding agents, automated review, guardrails and delivery gates on one platform, so code written with AI can ship to production safely. - Coding agents with scoped context and permissions - Automated review and quality gates in CI/CD - Guardrails, audit trail and cost visibility Claude · MCP · GitHub Actions · AWS · Go [rebrandly.com](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/rebrandly) ### Bulk ingest API *Rebrandly · Lead DevOps* A Golang API that writes hundreds of thousands of records into DynamoDB in under a second. It was key to closing deals with strategic customers. - Sub-second bulk writes - Parallel batching - Built for enterprise volume Go · DynamoDB · AWS · ECS [rebrandly.com](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/rebrandly) ### Container cloud *SiteHost · Auckland* A custom Docker-based cloud running more than 15,000 containers, with tools to monitor events across thousands of servers. - 15,000+ containers - Fleet-wide event analysis - WAF and bad-traffic filtering Docker · Xen · Ansible · Linux [sitehost.nz](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/sitehost) ### Terraform provider v1.0 *SiteHost · Auckland* Helped ship version 1.0 of the SiteHost Terraform provider, so staff and customers could deploy VPS servers as code. - Infrastructure as code - Self-service VPS - Customer-facing tooling Terraform · Go · APIs [sitehost.nz](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/sitehost) ### Silverhost *Co-founder · 2011 – 2021* A Chilean hosting company built for small businesses on a budget: dedicated servers, AWS and DigitalOcean combined, with real-time malware and spam defenses. - 1,000+ active clients - 500+ projects delivered - Ten years of operations Linux · AWS · DigitalOcean · Security [silverhost.cl](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/silverhost) ## Experience From a school data center in Santiago to leading an AI platform in Europe. ### Director of AI Platform — [Rebrandly](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/rebrandly) Oct 2025 – present · Remote from Barcelona · HQ in Dublin · Experience Leading a team spread across seven countries and time zones that builds the platform for shipping AI-generated code safely: coding agents, automated review, guardrails and delivery gates. ### Lead DevOps Engineer — [Rebrandly](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/rebrandly) Apr 2024 – Oct 2025 · Remote · HQ in Dublin, Ireland · Experience Led the team behind critical infrastructure, standardised our processes and built a sub-second bulk ingest API in Go. ### DevOps Engineer — [Rebrandly](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/rebrandly) Jun 2023 – Apr 2024 · Remote · HQ in Dublin, Ireland · Experience Sped up CI pipelines, introduced auto-scaling and migrated legacy services to Amazon ECS. ### System Engineer — [SiteHost](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/sitehost) Aug 2021 – May 2023 · Auckland, New Zealand · Experience Kept a 15,000-container cloud healthy, rolled out a WAF and helped ship the Terraform provider v1.0. ### Backend Engineer — Agencia Blue Jul 2012 – Feb 2014 · Providencia, Chile · Experience Mentored the team, moved the agency into custom development with Symfony and brought DevOps into delivery. ### DevOps & Co-founder — [Silverhost Hosting Chile](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/silverhost) Aug 2011 – Aug 2021 · Las Condes, Chile · Founder Built a hosting company to more than 1,000 active clients, learning sales, negotiation, marketing and SEO along the way. ### Ingeniero de Ejecución en Informática — Universidad de Ciencias de la Informática 2011 – 2013 · Santiago, Chile · Education Systems engineering degree, studied while running production systems. ### System Engineer — Instituto Profesional Valle Central Oct 2011 – Jul 2012 · Santiago, Chile · Experience Installed and ran web, database, DNS, firewall and VoIP services for a national education institute. ## Achievements - **15,000+ containers** — Run on a custom Docker cloud at SiteHost. - **1,000+ active clients** — Served by Silverhost across Chile. - **500+ projects** — Delivered by the Silverhost team. - **<1s bulk ingest** — Hundreds of thousands of records into DynamoDB. - **15 years in production** — Since my first server in 2011. - **3 continents** — South America, Oceania and Europe. ### Education & certifications - **Ingeniero de Ejecución en Informática** — Universidad de Ciencias de la Informática · 2011 – 2013 - **Professional Git & GitHub** — Certification - **English, professional working proficiency** — Ten years working in English with teams across the USA, Europe and Oceania - **Current focus: AI-assisted engineering** — Claude, MCP, coding agents and evaluation-driven development ## Take the CV with you The same CV as this page, in the format you need. - [Download CV (PDF)](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/cv-pdf-en) - [JSON Resume](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/cv-json-en) - [LaTeX source](https://links.gonzalorios.cl/cv-latex-en) ## Contact Let's ship AI-written code, safely. Open to conversations about AI-assisted engineering, coding agents in production and platform engineering leadership. - - - Barcelona · Central European Time