Gregory Golberg
Fractional CTO & Software Architect
Palo Alto, California
Joined January 2026
Summary
Pragmatic systems architect who prioritizes production-ready engineering: Gregory consistently frames his work around building systems that actually run in production, balancing velocity with stability and emphasizing observability and practical tooling. debedb+2
Ad tech and real-time bidding domain expert: he designed and shipped DSP/RTB platforms, compiled rule-driven bidding logic (OpenDSP/Lot49), and contributed engineering leadership at companies operating high-throughput advertising systems (MZ, AppLovin, A9). debedb+1
Cloud, data-pipelines and infrastructure-focused engineer: his roles regularly involve cloud migrations, ETL and lakehouse work (Glue, Athena, Redshift), CI/CD and reliability practices, and building cross-cloud query and access tooling. toptal+1
Open-source and community contributor with technical publications: maintains projects and documentation (SourceForge/jSewer, Lot49 javadocs), participates in OWASP community, and publishes detailed technical posts on his personal blog. sourceforge+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
DEBEDb (personal engineering blog)
A collection of technical essays, postmortems, tooling notes, and projects covering infrastructure, data engineering, ad tech, LLM/MCP tooling, and other systems topics.
Posts on OpenDSP design and implementation
Series of posts describing the OpenDSP architecture (rule compilation into Groovy, sandboxing, DMP integration, and bidding logic examples).
Lot49 / OpenCMO Javadoc (technical API documentation)
Javadoc/API documentation for the Lot49/OpenCMO components (config interfaces and related runtime classes) authored/maintained within the project ecosystem.