Gillian Armstrong
Senior WW Builder Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGillian Armstrong is a senior full-stack software architect with over two decades of hands-on experience and eight years in senior roles, currently driving R&D and incubation at AWS as a WW Builder Specialist Solutions Architect. She has a proven track record introducing microservices, cloud-native architectures, modern web stacks, and AI into large organizations, and previously progressed through technical and leadership roles at Liberty IT and specialist AI work at Workgrid. Passionate about making technology accessible, she combines pragmatic engineering with knowledge-sharing—frequently speaking at conferences and blogging about Cloud and AI. Gillian’s work sits at the intersection of visionary R&D and practical scaling, turning prototypes into production-ready solutions across distributed systems. Based in Belfast, she brings a First Class BEng in Electronic and Software Engineering and a visible commitment to community engagement that extends beyond typical architect responsibilities.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic and Software Engineering, First Class Hons, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic and Software Engineering, First Class Hons at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (31)
amazon-connect10
amazon9
dependency-free9
voicemail8
get-started7
sms7
facebook7
aws7
chat7
jetbrains-ides6
facebook-messenger6
jetbrains6
streaming5
chatbot5
drift5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
virtualgill/intelligent-email-insights-first-steps
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
aws-samples/amazon-lex-v2-lambda-integration-examples
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 5 pushes, 3 tags in 6 months
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