Open to Work
Hello,
I'm Gooi.
After 7 years scaling distributed cloud infrastructure at DigitalOcean, I am now seeking to bring that engineering experience to a new professional opportunity.
After 7 years scaling distributed cloud infrastructure at DigitalOcean, I am now seeking to bring that engineering experience to a new professional opportunity.
I'm Gooi — pronounced "gooey" — a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of production experience scaling distributed systems at DigitalOcean. I began my programming journey through mastery-based learning at Launch School, which gave me a deep appreciation for pedagogy that meets learners where they are.
Alongside my engineering career, I contribute open-source tooling to Strudel, a music-patterning code editor, and host workshops on topics such as music theory and sound design — because I love making complex ideas feel approachable.
I'm looking for my next chapter: a Senior Engineer role where I can connect the dots — between analytics, troubleshooting, user experience, and real efficiency gains from using a data-driven approach towards solving engineering problems.
Backend Go, Ruby; Frontend CSS, JavaScript animations
Distributed systems, S3-compatible object storage, secure at-rest encryption/decryption
Load testing, graphing and aggregating logs for analytics, mentorship, operational excellence
Oscilloscope tools for audio signal analysis, tools for visualizing pitch and relationships between frequencies/notes
Became mentor to 3 team members, focused on improving VIP escalation workflows and overall time-to-resolution for high-tier customer incidents.
Improved log analytics and dashboards to accelerate troubleshooting of customer escalations, contributing to reduced churn through faster resolution times.
Deployed Spaces to Bangalore, London, and Toronto. Mentored IC2s through the process, designed load tests for the new high-performance tier, gathering performance data at >10K combined RPS per bucket.
Proposed and implemented secure encryption, decryption, and storage of S3 secret access keys in the database — end-to-end from RFC through production deployment.
Joined DigitalOcean's Object Storage team as a mid-level engineer after completing the Launch School Capstone Program, where I built a real-time collaborative REPL.
Beyond professional work, I build and contribute to tools at the intersection of creativity, code, and learning — with a particular focus on making complex ideas feel playful and accessible.
Ongoing contributions to the Strudel live-coding music editor, including a richly configurable interactive. pitchwheel visualization with EDO scale support, custom label remapping, and dynamic adjustments based on pattern events. Used in music theory workshops and live performances.
View on Codeberg →A Radial-flower Oscilloscope for Visualizing + Studying Waveform Signals Demo: https://app.waveflower.org
Read the Whitepaper →Active contributor to the Uzu/TidalCycles live coding music community — improving tooling, hosting workshops, and helping newcomers find their footing in algorithmic music and creative coding.
Uzu Community →I am an active member of these communities of live coding artists. Applying my unique skills in engineering + math + music help others learn to make music through code and to see their own potential.
You can find me in these Discord community servers:
Glossing - Discord →
Switch Angel - Discord →
Live Code NYC - Discord →
A community workshop covering major scale chord progressions, voicing, inversions, and transposition — framed around how chords express emotion. Hosted as a 2026 Uzu microgrant grantee.
Watch on YouTube →Hands-on workshop introducing synthesis fundamentals, walking participants through recreating a "supersaw" patch step by step. Designed for curious beginners with no prior synthesis experience.
Watch on YouTube →I'm actively looking for roles that encompass Engineering and Creativity — for example building better tools in order to help others learn + create, such as making algorithmic art for live shows as well as to help lead others in developing their potential and talents through code. If you have an interesting project idea, or looking for someone to help you build the tools for creation, I'd love to get in touch!
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