He began working as a civil servant in the
Attorney General's Office in 1975 while studying at the university. In 1997 he became a prosecutor and was assigned as a prosecutor in the city of
Rivera until 2000. Then he was assigned until 2009 as a Departmental Prosecutor of
Maldonado. In office he prosecuted
Guillermo Coppola for obstruction of justice. From 2009 to 2012 he served as National Prosecutor of the Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Montevideo. In 2012 he was appointed head of the Special Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, a position in which he prosecuted well-known personalities such as the football executive
Eugenio Figueredo, and the Minister of Economy of
José Mujica's
administration,
Fernando Lorenzo. In 2016 he was promoted as head of the Montevideo Criminal Prosecutor's Office and a year later of the Criminal Homicide Prosecutor's Office. In April 2021 he was appointed Deputy Attorney General to then-incumbent Jorge Díaz Almeida, who resigned from the position in October. Due to this, Gómez took over as interim, pending the nomination of a new one, which corresponds to the Executive with the approval of the
Senate. However, since then no consensus has been achieved between all parliamentary groups. == Personal life ==