Demian Gutierrez

Principal Software Developer Engineer @ Ex-Amazon/AWS
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5.0
(25 reviews)
20+ years as an SDE / 8 years at Amazon AWS
United States of America Active yesterday Usually responds in half a day

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I am a pragmatic software engineer with 20+ years of experience, passionate about simplicity, operational and engineering excellence, DevOps, distributed systems and computer science. I am also a teacher and mentor at heart, which allows me to connect with software engineers, managers and tech product leaders of all levels of experience, helping them to grow, learn, and achieve their career goals.

I started coding in GW-BASIC with an 8086 when I was 13 years old (yes, I’m old, I’ve seen a lot). This initial experience made me realize that I wanted to stay around computers as much as I could. All this eventually led to college (Systems Engineering/Computer Science) which led to a long and fulfilling career as software developer engineer, teacher, and mentor.

My journey includes starting my own software engineering companies in Venezuela (and making a living of them for seven plus years), a five-year detour teaching Computer Science related courses at a notable Venezuelan university, and seven plus years at Amazon AWS as a Principal Engineer.

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5 out of 5 stars

I definitely recommend mentoring with Demian. He is honestly interested in you and the problems you bring to the session.

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Incredibly helpful. Provides amazing help with algorithms and thoughtful insights into all aspects of career.

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