Jim Gutenkauf
Boss at Amazon Web Services
Marysville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJim Gutenkauf is a seasoned communications and documentation leader with 8+ years of experience in technical roles and a career spanning enterprise software, aerospace, and cloud services. He currently contributes to AWS as a Senior Technical Writer on Amazon Redshift while running Jim Creek Farms, where he’s applied project management and ecological curiosity to restore a clear-cut forest into a recovering property. Previously a Sr. Principal Information Developer at Oracle, Jim built PeopleSoft curriculum and technical training programs that scaled across large organizations. His background blends storytelling, graphic design, and hands-on production—skills honed at Raytheon and Hughes where he managed marketing communications, proposals, and multimedia teams. Based in Marysville, Washington, he pairs organizational management and communication training with practical experience shipping complex documentation for mission-critical platforms. Colleagues know him for translating technical complexity into clear, teachable content and for an uncommon side pursuit of forestry recovery that informs his systems-thinking approach.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Minneapolis College of Art and DesignUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor of Arts (BA), Organizational Management and Communication, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Organizational Management and Communication at Concordia College
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
python10
dotnet10
amazon-web-services10
terraform10
java10
ruby10
aws-sdk10
amazon-redshift10
php10
sdk10
aws10
cpp10
documentation10
amazon10
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Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/amazon-redshift-developer-guide
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
This is the documentation for the Amazon Redshift Developer Guide
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
redshiftamazonamazon-web-servicesamazon-redshiftaws
JimGAWS/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Code examples used in the official AWS SDK documentation.
Contributions:7 pushes in 11 days
sdk-documentationsdkaws-sdkaws
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