Andres Gutierrez is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO with 13 years of experience building high-quality web and game engineering teams across Latin America. He has led engineering and technical strategy at studios from Brainz to Jam City and recently Bacon Games, blending product-focused direction with hands-on development. A full-stack practitioner rooted in PHP and C-extension tooling, Andres has contributed to notable open-source projects like Phalcon and Zephir—improving developer tooling, memory handling, and PSR-compliance in widely used frameworks. His background in data science and innovation management complements a strong engineering education, enabling him to bridge analytics, architecture, and creative game systems. Known for improving developer experience as much as player-facing features, he pairs UI/CSS tweaks and schema updates with low-level compiler and memory fixes. Based in Colombia, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to scaling teams and codebases in fast-moving entertainment and web shops.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Universidad Piloto de Colombia
Innovation Manager Innovation, Innovation Manager Innovation at Global Innovation Management Institute
Data Scientist Procesamiento de datos y tecnología de procesamiento de datos, Data Scientist Procesamiento de datos y tecnología de procesamiento de datos at Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Andres primarily focused on fixing code formatting issues according to PSR-2 standards and improving the README files across several example projects. The user also modified multiple `index.php` files, controllers and model files demonstrating the user's work across the entire application stack. Their changes touch upon a variety of Phalcon MVC examples, suggesting a full-stack development role in supporting the framework's example projects.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andres primarily focused on updating IDE stubs, specifically for Phalcon framework components. These updates involved changes to class definitions and method signatures within the stubs. Additionally, the user worked on updating the scaffold tool to version 1.2.0 and modifying the controller templates. This work contributed to improving developer tooling and code generation capabilities.
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Andres Gutierrez - Chief Technology Officer at Bacon Games