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Gerald
Villorente

Technology-agnostic engineer — from PHP to Node.js, React, and Next.js. Building the web since 2010.

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Gerald Villorente

Skills

16+
years of professional experience
counting live since 2010 — present
Current Stack
Node.jsReactNext.jsExpressTypeScript
CMS & Platform
Drupal 10/11WordpressPHPSymfony
DevOps & Infra
KubernetesTerraformDockerGCPAWS
Pipelines
GitHub ActionsCircleCIJenkinsBlacksmithArgoCD
Observability
GrafanaPrometheusELKPingdomNew RelicUpsight
Orchestration
n8nAirflowWrikeChefAnsible

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Pulse

Support-operations intelligence platform — syncs Zendesk, Jira, and Confluence data with AI analysis into role-specific dashboards, triage queues, and Slack alerts.

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UpSight

Uptime intelligence tool built on Pingdom data — tracks outage history, SLA compliance, and per-customer reliability, with live Slack alerts.

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ReSight

Web-based Redis performance profiler and monitoring dashboard tracking cache hit ratios, memory usage, CPU, and slow commands in real time.

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MySight

Web-based MySQL performance profiler and monitoring dashboard tracking buffer pool efficiency, query throughput, connections, and replication health.

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Loggr

Multi-tenant log analyzer that ingests Nginx, PHP, and MySQL logs into Postgres and serves analytics through a REST API and React dashboard.

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nspct

Internal CLI framework for customer support engineers — automates debugging across environments, logs, databases, and Git workflows.

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Canvas-to-Chorus

Turns an uploaded image or video into an original song — analyzes the artwork, writes lyrics, recommends a musical style, and can produce the actual track via Suno.

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Stackr

Beginner-friendly stock market simulator with real-time charts, watchlists, threshold alerts, and risk-scored paper trading.

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Gobarrier

A high-performance, cross-platform KVM software switch written in Go — inspired by Barrier but rebuilt for lower latency and with drag-and-drop file transfer between machines.

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Kairos

A highly customizable, interactive Command Line Interface (CLI) clock built in Go. It features a 1-3-3 grid layout that displays a primary focus timezone and six secondary timezones with real-time ASCII art rendering.

golang

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Zentycs

A Zendesk application designed to provide agents with real-time, high-density metrics regarding ticket lifecycles and agent collaboration directly within the ticket sidebar.

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Terminus Site Debug

A Terminus plugin that downloads site logs from a specific environment of a Pantheon site and parses the logs for debugging purposes.

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Writing

How I Resurrected My RX 590 for Local AI: A Guide to Running LLMs on "Legacy" Hardware

The common wisdom in 2026 is that if you want to run powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) locally, you need a brand-new NVIDIA card and a massive budget.

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Jul 9, 2025Context Engineering in AI: The Secret Sauce for Better Models

Jul 8, 2025AI-Powered PHP-FPM Analysis: Streamlining Troubleshooting with Golang and Gemini AI
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Services

01

Web application architecture & audits

Site-building review, performance audits, and upgrade paths for web applications — CMS or custom-built.

02

DevOps & CI/CD setup

Pipelines, containerization, and Kubernetes deployments built for your team’s workflow.

03

Fractional platform engineering

Ongoing, part-time engineering support for teams that need senior coverage without a full hire.

04

Technical support transformation

Helping support teams evolve from reactive ticket-pushing into a world-class, customer-trusted support organization.

05

Seminars & workshops

Hands-on sessions on applying AI in engineering workflows and practical software engineering fundamentals, for teams and dev communities.

Courses

free for registered users

AI: From Zero to Hero

A 20-day, phase-by-phase course for newcomers who want to use AI to work faster and smarter — never more than an hour a day, so it fits around your normal routine.

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free for registered users

AI: Vibe Coding a Product

A 20-day course for people with zero software engineering background — build and publish a real working mini product by describing what you want to AI, explained as simply and clearly as possible, with lots of examples.

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free for registered users

AI in Software Engineering

A 20-day, phase-by-phase course for professional software engineers with zero AI experience — how to use AI tools for code generation, debugging, refactoring, review, and security, without lowering your engineering standards.

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free for registered users

AI: Data Analysis and Report

A 20-day course on using AI for real-world data analysis and reporting — cleaning messy Excel and CSV files, finding patterns, building charts, and writing verified reports.

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free for registered users

AI: As Personal Assistant

A 20-day course on using AI as an extension of yourself — for planning, organizing, emails, decisions, and everyday life, with clear boundaries on where AI's role should end.

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Contact

Have an infrastructure, web application, or technical support operation problem worth solving? Let's talk.

geraldvillorente@gmail.comor use the contact form →
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