System Engineer
Instituto Profesional Valle Central · Santiago, Chile
Installed and ran web, database, DNS, firewall and VoIP services for a national education institute.
Gonzalo Ríos · aka GonzalitoDirector ofAI 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.
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.
Staff IDPortfolio · 2026
Gonzalo Ríos
Director · AI Platform
- ID no.
- GR-2011
- Dept.
- AI Platform
- Uptime
- 99.99%
What I am
- AI platform leaderCoding agents · guardrails · CI/CD
- Team leadStandards, mentoring, delivery
- Platform engineerDocker · Kubernetes · Terraform
- BuilderGo APIs at enterprise scale
- FounderSilverhost, ten years
Code written with AI should ship like any other: reviewed, tested, secure and reversible, so teams move faster without gambling with production.
Skills
The periodic table of my stack.
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.
View all skills as a list
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
Things I've built.
From the AI platform I lead today back to the systems that taught me how to run production. Open a panel to see more.
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
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
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
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
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
Experience
Fifteen years, in production.
From a school data center in Santiago to leading an AI platform in Europe.
Ingeniero de Ejecución en Informática
Universidad de Ciencias de la Informática · Santiago, Chile
Systems engineering degree, studied while running production systems.
DevOps & Co-founder
Silverhost Hosting Chile (external site, opens in a new tab) · Las Condes, Chile
Built a hosting company to more than 1,000 active clients, learning sales, negotiation, marketing and SEO along the way.
Backend Engineer
Agencia Blue · Providencia, Chile
Mentored the team, moved the agency into custom development with Symfony and brought DevOps into delivery.
System Engineer
SiteHost (external site, opens in a new tab) · Auckland, New Zealand
Kept a 15,000-container cloud healthy, rolled out a WAF and helped ship the Terraform provider v1.0.
DevOps Engineer
Rebrandly (external site, opens in a new tab) · Remote · HQ in Dublin, Ireland
Sped up CI pipelines, introduced auto-scaling and migrated legacy services to Amazon ECS.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Rebrandly (external site, opens in a new tab) · Remote · HQ in Dublin, Ireland
Led the team behind critical infrastructure, standardised our processes and built a sub-second bulk ingest API in Go.
Director of AI Platform
Rebrandly (external site, opens in a new tab) · Remote from Barcelona · HQ in Dublin
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.
Achievements
Proud moments.
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.
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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
Always learning.
- Ingeniero de Ejecución en InformáticaUniversidad de Ciencias de la Informática · 2011 – 2013
- Professional Git & GitHubCertification
- English, professional working proficiencyTen years working in English with teams across the USA, Europe and Oceania
- Current focus: AI-assisted engineeringClaude, MCP, coding agents and evaluation-driven development
Contact
Let's ship AI-written code, safely.
Open to conversations about AI-assisted engineering, coding agents in production and platform engineering leadership.
Write me an email: contacto@gonzalorios.clTake the CV with you
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