# gustavo.is

> Personal site of Gustavo Gallegos: about, project retrospectives, a blog, and a contact form. Every retrospective and post also has a markdown mirror at https://gustavo.is/llms.mdx/<page path>.

Gustavo Gallegos is a software engineer generalist in Los Angeles with 26 years in tech. He has shipped everything from Microsoft Office features to AI-powered health apps, and the agents behind them, across software engineering, QA, product management, and engineering program management.

Career, one employer per line, earliest first:

- Microsoft (Seattle): Software Design Engineer, Software Design Engineer in Test. Products: Word, Office, Natural Language Group, Natural UI, VSTO.
- slide.com (San Francisco): Software Design Engineer in Test, Director of Quality Assurance, Product Manager. Products: Slide Photo Sharing App, Top Friends, SuperPoke, FunWall, SuperPoke Pets, Superpocus.
- Jawbone (San Francisco): Product Manager, Sr. Engineering Program Manager. Products: UP Fitness App, UP24, UP 2, UP 3.
- Jawbone Health Hub (Los Angeles): Sr. Engineering Program Manager. Products: Jawbone Health.
- Meaning (Los Angeles): Software Design Engineer / CTO. Products: Ponder team collaboration, Ponder blogging platform.
- Tartle (Los Angeles): Staff Software Design Engineer, Staff Software Engineer. Products: Tartle Marketplace, Datavault, Mirror AI Health Coach.

## Pages

- [Home](https://gustavo.is/): who Gustavo is and the work history, told as a scroll story
- [Blog](https://gustavo.is/blog): Notes from Gustavo Gallegos on building software, music, movies and life.
- [Contact](https://gustavo.is/contact): send Gustavo a message

## Retrospectives

- [Ponder, a group blogging platform](https://gustavo.is/llms.mdx/remembering/ponder): A look back at Ponder: what it was, the technologies behind it, and the lessons I took away from building it.
- [Ponder Blogs, a public blog destination](https://gustavo.is/llms.mdx/remembering/ponder-blogs): After sunsetting Ponder Blogs, I spent some time reflecting on the lessons I learned building it.

## Blog posts

- [Loop de loop.](https://gustavo.is/llms.mdx/blog/agent-circuit-breaker): This DeepSeek Harness plugin stops Qwen's unrecoverable loopiness. (published 2026-09-04)
- [Hi!](https://gustavo.is/llms.mdx/blog/hello-world): Shiny new things. (published 2026-07-28)

## Optional

- [Full text of every page](https://gustavo.is/llms-full.txt)
- [RSS feed](https://gustavo.is/feed.xml)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gustavogallegos)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/pricklywiggles.bsky.social)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/pricklywiggles)