Karl Gutwin
Director, Software Engineering Services at The BioTeam, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Gutwin is a director-level software engineering leader in Boston with 11 years of experience driving cloud architecture, high-performance computing, and scientific computing for life sciences organizations. At The BioTeam he leads engineering services while remaining hands-on in cloud and HPC projects, drawing on prior roles at Biogen where he helped stand up NGS automation, Dockerized workflows, and global scientific computing practices. He pairs a Ph.D. in Biology from MIT and a B.S. in Biochemistry and Music with deep operational expertise—networking, storage, and DevOps—to translate complex research needs into reliable production systems. An active backend contributor to the popular moto project, he’s improved AWS mocking for testing and advanced DynamoDB Streams support, showing a knack for pragmatic open-source fixes that accelerate team productivity. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical leadership that bridges biology, software engineering, and scalable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biology, Ph.D., Biology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S., Biochemistry and Music, B.S., Biochemistry and Music at Brandeis University
Github Skills (12)
amazon-dynamodb10
boto10
dynamodb10
aws10
ias10
python10
testing10
s3-bucket9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
amazon-ec29
ec9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Karl primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `moto` repository, focusing on mocking AWS infrastructure for testing purposes. Their work involved implementing the `get_policy` IAM action, correcting policy version behavior, and correcting flake8 failures. They also added StreamSpecification to the dynamodb2 package and made considerable progress on DynamoDB Streams implementation. Furthermore, the user corrected the behavior of ReturnValues parameter to put_item and update_item.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
kgutwin/dnsdock
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
DNS service discovery for Docker containers
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 12 branches in 7 years 2 months
containersdnsbinddockerdiscovery
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