It is all translation: between languages, between systems, between what someone means and what a machine can act on.
Word and creation have never been closer. I write about AI at GATEKPT.AI in English and Spanish.
Software delivery.
Automation, AI workflows, teaching.
Public, role-level summary aligned to LinkedIn. No confidential systems, private metrics, or internal details.
- Aug 2026 - Present/Full-time
Sr Quality Assurance Engineer/Enterprise software delivery
- Lead AI-assisted quality and delivery workflows across four development teams.
- Build automation and data-validation processes with Playwright, Azure DevOps, SQL, REST APIs, Kafka, and reporting.
- Create reusable agents, templates, workflow standards, and team enablement material.
- Design onboarding and project-training materials using visual design and learning principles.
- AI workflows
- Playwright
- Azure DevOps
- SQL
- Kafka
- training
- Jul 2025 - Aug 2026/Full-time
Software Engineer/Enterprise inventory and data systems
- Modernized inventory-management workflows with REST APIs and integration services.
- Built Azure DevOps AI plugins for planning, work items, test cases, summaries, documentation, and tracking.
- Standardized repeatable AI-assisted engineering practices across the team.
- Supported troubleshooting, data-lake work, and OpenShift deployment using Python, SQL, Azure Databricks, and Data Lake tooling.
- REST APIs
- Azure Databricks
- Python
- Data Lake
- OpenShift
- AI plugins
- Dec 2022 - Jul 2025/Full-time
Associate Software Engineer/Enterprise software and automation
- Identified a manual-testing gap and drove a Playwright automation initiative from concept through adoption.
- Automated parallel UI coverage across four server-backed test applications with Azure DevOps suites running in about five minutes.
- Developed software and data workflows for operational reporting, pharmaceutical traceability, and food-supply-chain processes.
- Automated data collection, validation, transformation, reporting, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- QA automation
- Playwright
- C#
- Azure
- data workflows
- traceability
- Jan 2020 - Apr 2022/Part-time
Teacher/Florida State University
- Led individual and small-group instruction across mathematics, science, and computer science.
- Adapted explanations, exercises, and problem-solving strategies to different learning styles.
- Mentored more than 200 students annually across analytical thinking, programming fundamentals, and structured problem-solving.
- Helped students build confidence with difficult technical material through patient coaching and follow-up.
- teaching
- communication
- C++
- math
- mentoring
- learning design
Systems
in public.
Live artifacts, case studies, and systems I am building in public.
Music technology.
Personal sound system.
Voice, bass, pedals, Python, DAW recording, and live performance turned into one artist-tech identity.
MaloSound is where I turn code, voice, bass, pedals, and live performance into one personal sound system.
This site is scored by original MaloSound audio. Use the player at the bottom of the screen to keep the track running while you browse.
Voice
Raw vocal ideas, take repair, melody fragments, and performance moments.
Signal chain
Bass, keys, pedals, tones, DAW routing, and playable sound decisions.
Live code
Python and control experiments for shaping sound, visuals, and workflow.
Performance system
Short clips, reactive visuals, live setups, and personal sound identity.
Marcelo Zapata
Translation into systems.
Software, AI research, data engineering, teaching, and original sound design.
My work sits between what people mean and what software can reliably do. I build tools for data automation, QA systems, internal workflows, reporting, AI-assisted review, and interfaces that make complicated work easier to trust.
GATEKPT.AI is where I publish the learning in public, in English and Spanish. MaloSound is the original sound layer of the same practice: code, voice, instruments, and performance turned into a personal system.
- C# / Azure / data systems
- TypeScript / React / Next.js
- Python / data automation
- AI systems / evaluation
- Prompting / research notes
- Evidence review / validation
Translation layer
I move between human intent, technical systems, data, and AI so the work becomes actionable.
Teaching instinct
I care about making hard material easier to understand, remember, test, and use.