Gonzalo Maldonado is a Tech Leader and Architect, specialized on building teams that deliver software that brings happiness to their users. At work (Nextdoor.com), he applies his obsession with Observability and Microservices to build great experiences to bring people together. At home, he applies his experience with IoT to make his Hot-Sauce cooking hobby even geekier and data driven using sensors & microcontrollers. Gonzalo, his wife and their oversized cat/lion live in Beautiful, Nerdtown Oakland California.