Gilbert Palau is a macOS Client Platform Engineer at REEF Technologies in Miami, Florida, working remote from Rockwall, TX.

He describes himself as a 🥪 sandwich connoisseur, a 🍺 craft beer enthusiast, a 🎶 Italo Disco and 🎧 grunge music lover, a 🎒 backpacking aficionado, a 🧼 Nano user, an avid 🎮 video gamer, an 🏗 open-source evangelist a 🍖 barbecue enthusiast, a husband and a father 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 of four. He also has a 🐕‍🦺 and a 🐈.

He is terrible at Twitter, is mostly inactive on Facebook, LinkedIn, occasionally posts comments to dev.to. He's part of the team behind Goon Discord Network and he is credited with the design and concept of the project.

He admires, in particular, the works of John Carmack, Robin Williams, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, Steve Jobs, Giorgo Moroder, Rebecca Heineman and Matt Miller.

He can be reached at Keybase and you can, if you need to, encrypt messages for him using his Keybase key.