Gustavo Picón
Engineer at NVIDIA
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Picón is a security-focused engineer with 19 years of experience designing and building scalable distributed systems, now contributing at NVIDIA after a long tenure at Twitch. He blends deep software engineering and solutions architecture skills with formal security training from SANS and Stanford, enabling practical, secure-by-design implementations at scale. Gustavo has a track record across consumer and data-driven platforms—Etsy, Parachutes, YouGov—where he balanced rapid feature delivery with measurable security improvements. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a systems-engineering mindset to threat-aware architecture and enjoys translating complex security policies into developer-friendly controls that keep services reliable under real-world load.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering at Universidad de LimaSecurity Strategic Planning Policy and Leadership Specialized Knowledge and Applications, Security Strategic Planning Policy and Leadership Specialized Knowledge and Applications at SANS Technology InstituteStanford Software Security Foundations Information Security Secure Programming, Stanford Software Security Foundations Information Security Secure Programming at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (73)
programming-language10
http-streaming10
python10
http10
pypy10
jython10
django10
wsgi10
pythonic10
pyramid10
golang10
high-performance10
tree-structure10
cross-platform10
http-server10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pythonpe/python.pe
Feb 2011 - Mar 2014
Python Peru
Contributions:65 commits in 3 years
pythonpython3peru
tabo/cherrypy-dynpool
Jan 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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