Julio Gonzalez, Systems & Full-Stack Engineer
Systems & Full-Stack Engineer · Brooklyn, New York

I design, build, ship and operate entire production platforms. Alone.

Database schema, backend, real time infrastructure, frontend, payments, deployment, operations. Not prototypes: systems that run real businesses daily for years. AI is on both sides: LLMs inside what I build, and AI in how I engineer every day, on top of 18 years of systems fundamentals.

Julio Gonzalez, Systems & Full-Stack Engineer
4
Live products
6+ yrs
In production, daily use
973k+
Records served
0
Frameworks. Zero dependencies

How I build with AI

I was shipping production systems for a decade before AI. Now I use it on both sides of the work.

In the systems I ship: LLMs wired directly into live databases and business rules. Natural language interfaces over real inventory, automated analysis of real invoices. The AI is not bolted on; it reads the same data the business runs on.

In my workflow: AI is how I engineer in any language the problem demands. My expertise is 18 years of systems fundamentals (architecture, data, security, operations). AI is the multiplier, and I direct it like I'd direct a team.

A WebSocket server in C, a language I'd never shipped in
FrescoLink needed a real time layer at the level of the big messaging platforms. I designed and directed the architecture, iterated with AI through every subsystem (JWT verification in C, AES-256 encryption, an async MySQL job queue with pthreads), then compiled, debugged and deployed it myself to AWS Lightsail. It runs in production today.
What used to take weeks now takes days
Complete product surfaces (API, schema, frontend, payments) shipped solo in a fraction of my pre AI time, with the same zero dependency discipline and production standards. Next on my list: rewriting the real time layer in Rust. Same playbook as C: deep engineering fundamentals let me ship production code in a language I haven't shipped before, and I don't need to master a language to do it.

Selected systems

FrescoLink.com, a real time messaging platform

Founder · solo build
C · libwebsocketsWebSocketsPHP API, zero dependenciesJWT from scratchAWS

Unlimited communication identities behind a single link. You share frescolink.com/your-name instead of your phone number, and manage every conversation from one dashboard. Y Combinator S2026 applicant.

The part I'm proudest of: I wrote the real time layer, a WebSocket server in C on libwebsockets, and put it in production on AWS. It verifies JWTs natively in C, encrypts content with AES-256, persists every message to MySQL through a dedicated worker thread with an async job queue, fans out messages across sessions, and even fires AI triggers directly from C.

  • Formal architecture contract: the C server owns real time transport only (chat, notifications, badges); a pure PHP API owns all business logic.
  • The entire API hand written in native PHP with zero dependencies, including JWT implemented from scratch (HMAC, signature verification, payload decode), routing, migrations, and Cloudflare R2 integration.
C
language I chose for the realtime layer
1
documented boundary: C transport vs PHP business logic
0
framework dependencies in the API

FrescoLogic, the logistics platform that runs a real NYC business

Architect & sole developer · 2019 to present
PHP nativeMySQLLLM integrationQuickBooksSSE

Fresco Products (frescoproductsny.com) is a food distributor in the Bronx supplying well known restaurants across New York and Manhattan. Their entire internal operation (orders, warehouse, invoicing, delivery) runs on a platform I architected and built alone, now holding 973,000+ records of production data, and they have used it every single day for 6+ years.

Since LLMs became available I integrated them into the core of the system: a natural language assistant that queries the live database, and automated executive analysis of 800+ invoices per month covering customer concentration, product performance and recommendations. Not chatbot wrappers. AI reading real business data with real business rules.

  • Every record produced by the system itself; 23,000+ units processed monthly.
  • QuickBooks API integration automating invoicing and order processing.
  • Real time SSE dashboard for warehouse TV screens; mobile tools for warehouse staff.
6+ yrs
daily production use
23k+
units / month
800+
invoices / month analyzed by AI

FrescoTap.com, FrescoStar.com, Partners.FrescoTap.com: three live products, early traction

Founder · solo build
NFCStripeAWS SESCloudflare R2Affiliate system

Three products shipped end to end (backend, database, frontend, payments, email, infrastructure) and alive in the market right now:

  • FrescoTap.com: a premium NFC business card, $39.99 one time, no subscription. Selling, with real users in its early growth stage.
  • FrescoStar.com: a Reviews Shield for local businesses. An NFC + QR stand that routes happy customers to Google reviews and unhappy ones to private feedback. Just launched.
  • Partners.FrescoTap.com: the affiliate platform for FrescoTap ($15 per sale, instant payouts via PayPal, Zelle or Venmo). Live and recruiting partners.

Full infrastructure run by one person: AWS (EC2, RDS, SES), Cloudflare (DNS, CDN, R2 object storage), Stripe, Twilio.

Selected milestones

One-person platform teams, since before the term existed.

Contact

Available immediately. Full-time or contract, NYC or remote.

julio@frescolink.com

Or chat with me live on my own platform
frescolink.com/julio/resume
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