Summary
Amir Barylko is a senior staff software engineer and technical leader with 20+ years building distributed, mission‑critical systems and guiding architecture across organizations, now contributing at Amazon from Canada. He blends hands‑on engineering with mentoring and process improvement—having logged 1,700+ mentoring sessions on Exercism’s Clojure track since 2016—and excels at aligning technical direction with business goals. His background spans security leadership at Apple, consulting on software quality, and founding a product-minded software shop, giving him a rare mix of enterprise security, startup ownership, and delivery discipline. Fluent in English and Spanish, he also applies AI and LLM technologies to practical use cases, turning research into production impact.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish