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┌─ identity ──────────────────────────────────┐
 name      zot24
 role      software engineer · founder · seed investor
 base      Asunción, Paraguay  (GMT-3)
 prior     BlackRock · Anaplan · Entelo · Moltin
 asks      paraguay residency · biz structure · personal finance
 contact   hi@zot24.com
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
24
years engineering
10+
cloud / infra
12
companies
PY
currently based

“I build the platforms that other platforms run on.”

24 years writing software, the last decade designing cloud platforms and the scalable infrastructure underneath them. Now mostly head-down building the next ones myself.

~/work
$ history --all
── work ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  1. apr 2023 — present
    san francisco bay area
    Strategic Advisor & Seed Investor @ Smartloop
    • Seed investor providing critical funding and strategic expertise during early growth stages
    • Guiding transition from legal services to AI-driven document analysis platform
    • Driving Web3 integration including decentralized storage and tokenomics
    • Advising on business strategy, contract negotiations, and fundraising initiatives
    AIWeb3Business StrategyTokenomics
  2. feb 2023 — jan 2025
    san francisco bay area
    Senior Cloud Engineer @ BlackRock
    • Designed Chaos Engineering scenarios with LitmusChaos, increasing test coverage by 30%
    • Enhanced observability with new monitoring cases and optimized dashboards
    • Revamped CI pipelines with simplified workflows and new templates
    • Migrated legacy Terraform code with remote backends, eliminating race conditions
    LitmusChaosTerraformCI/CDObservabilityKubernetes
  3. nov 2019 — jan 2022
    san francisco bay area
    Senior Cloud Platform Engineer @ Anaplan
    • Led team delivering high-availability AWS environments, reducing provisioning time by 25%
    • Coordinated production releases across multiple teams and enterprise clients
    • Optimized GCP infrastructure (GKE), increasing platform user retention by 23%
    • Built automated infrastructure testing with Terratest/Go, achieving 70% coverage
    • Contributed features to community Terraform providers
    AWSEKSTerraformGCPGKEGoTerratest
    I managed Israel while we both worked on the Platform Infrastructure team at Anaplan. While working with him, I quickly learned he was a capable addition to our team. He was professional in communicating with others, competent in getting his work done well and on time, and a team player who worked well with everyone. [...] His hard work and technical skills helped us complete the Lion project on time. [...] He has my full confidence.
    Richard Sposato·development team lead
  4. nov 2018 — oct 2019
    san francisco bay area
    Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Entelo
    • Built high-availability monitoring for all Kubernetes clusters (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki)
    • Created custom Prometheus exporter in Go, reducing AWS bills by 45%
    • Containerized applications and improved delivery pipelines, cutting release times by 35%
    • Implemented service mesh with Kubernetes, Istio, and Spinnaker
    KubernetesPrometheusGrafanaThanosGoIstioSpinnaker
    It's difficult to write a recommendation that does service to Israel's level of expertise or the importance that his work has made to the engineering team at Entelo. [...] The engineering team relies heavily on him (he knows our infrastructure inside and out, he built our deployment pipeline, he set up our metrics and logging systems); but at the same time he has made sure that the engineering team does not need to rely on him [...] He prevents engineers from having to spend their time dealing with infrastructure [...] I could not do my job effectively without Israel's help.
    Jason Rosendale·software engineer
  5. nov 2016 — sep 2018
    newcastle upon tyne, uk
    Infrastructure Engineer @ Moltin
    • Sole infrastructure engineer architecting customer-facing systems on AWS and Azure
    • Built highly available infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Docker
    • Implemented service mesh using Rancher/Cattle and Linkerd
    • Established CI/CD (Jenkins), monitoring (Datadog), and logging (ELK Stack) platforms
    AnsibleTerraformAWSAzureDockerRancherLinkerdJenkins
  6. sep 2015 — nov 2016
    newcastle upon tyne, uk
    Platform Engineer @ Moltin
    • Built and maintained product through monolith-to-microservices evolution
    • Worked across full stack: PHP, Laravel, Go, Node.js, Nginx
    • Managed data layer with Scylla, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL
    PHPLaravelGoNode.jsNginxPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearch
  7. sep 2014 — aug 2015
    bristol, uk
    Software Engineer @ Contactzilla
    • Main engineer for SaaS contact management platform
    • Fixed customer issues while refactoring legacy Zend Framework codebase
    • Architected new distributed system using Laravel and Symfony
    PHPZend FrameworkLaravelSymfonyMySQL
    I worked with Israel for a couple of years on our SaaS product ContactZilla. Working with Israel was a delight. He's an enthusiastic, smart and considered character with a real ability to learn knew technologies. He's never phased by a challenge and approaches everything with a professional manner and importantly with good humour. I'd definitely not hesitate to work with Israel again.
    Tom Holder·chief executive officer
  8. jun 2013 — jun 2014
    bristol, uk
    Software Developer @ Shiptheory
    • Integrated carrier APIs: DHL, myHermes, Parcelforce
    • Built payment platform integrations: PayPal, Authorize.net
    • Developed robust APIs enabling automated shipping workflows
    PHPMySQLPythonFlaskREST APIs
    Israel is a hardworking knowledgeable guy. He always seems up-to-date with the new trends and technologies and is versatile in a number of languages and environments.
    Mark Mikkelson·co-founder
~/projects
$ projects list --mine --status=active
── projects ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
01active·Rust

./zskills

Package manager for agentic coding CLIs

Declarative install, sync, and reconciliation of Claude Code plugins, Agent Skills, and MCP servers across user/project/local scopes via one skills.toml manifest. Treats settings.json and installed_plugins.json as state — the manifest as intent. Written in Rust.

CLIClaude CodeMCPAgent Skills
visit ↗source ↗
02active·Rust

./nworth

Self-hosted portfolio tracker, agent-first

Track your net worth across stocks, crypto, cash, stables, and physical assets — with intelligent allocation targets, a powerful Action Center, and tooling designed so both humans and AI agents can safely manage your money. Three small Rust binaries sharing one SQLite file. No cloud, no auth, no Node build step.

AxumSQLiteAgentsSelf-hosted
visit ↗source ↗
03 awaiting next shipempty
04 awaiting next shipempty
~/writing
$ writing list --recent 3
── writing ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
all posts →
~/contact
$ contact --list
── contact ───────────────────────────────────────────────────

Got a project, an idea, or just want to say hi?

Open to early-stage advisory, infra-heavy contracts, and the occasional seed cheque.

Also happy to compare notes on Paraguay residency, business structure, and personal finance for builders — I've walked that path and learned a few things worth sharing.

Email is fastest; LinkedIn for slow conversations.

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