Gwendolyn Pfetsch is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building identity and platform services for large-scale cloud providers, most recently at Amazon after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. She specializes in identity platform service buildout and has consistently progressed from intern to senior engineer roles, demonstrating deep domain expertise in authentication and API-backed services. Based in New York, she blends technical delivery with community leadership—having co-founded a Women In Tech book club and led Columbia Engineers Without Borders as co-president. Her background includes international study in Madrid and a Columbia Engineering degree in computer engineering, reflecting both technical rigor and global perspective. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs systems thinking with hands-on implementation and a knack for organizing teams around shared learning.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Greenwich High School
B.S. Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at Columbia Engineering
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Gwendolyn Pfetsch - Senior Software Engineer at Amazon