Jose Aguayo
Senior Software Engineer at Fintary
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Aguayo is a senior software engineer and leader based in the Austin area with a 25+ year career building scalable systems and engineering organizations across research, enterprise, and consumer domains. He has driven high-impact programs at Amazon Ads—delivering distributed systems serving trillions of requests/day, launching a Video Player SDK that grew revenue 20% YoY, and cutting deployment times from days to hours—while also leading compliance and automation initiatives with broad cross-organizational impact. His background spans neuromorphic and neuroprosthetics research at Stanford to telecom systems at Motorola, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems, real-time software, and large-scale cloud product experience. Known for mentoring and talent decisions (including serving as Amazon Bar Raiser) he consistently advances teams to on-schedule promotions and operational excellence. Currently building at Fintary after leading engineering for CLEAR’s TSA PreCheck product, he combines deep technical chops with a pragmatic, research-informed approach to product and process. An understated strength is his facility moving between academic research contexts and high-velocity commercial engineering environments, translating complex domain requirements into reliable production software.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (6)
controlled7
python4
cuda1
gpu1
simulator1
opencl1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jjaguayo/jjaguayo.github.io
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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