Summary
Sergio Puentes is a senior engineering leader based in New York with over a decade of experience building and scaling teams that deliver customer-facing cloud and cost-management experiences at AWS. He moved up through engineering leadership roles—from hands-on architecture and research at IBM and academia to VP/SVP and director positions at Veea—bringing product-minded execution to complex distributed systems. At AWS he leads cross-functional teams of engineers and scientists to help customers understand, control, and plan cloud costs, blending technical depth in machine learning and cloud computing with strong operational rigor. He holds an MS in Computer Science (Machine Learning) from Columbia and a Cum Laude MSc in Software Engineering, a combination that informs his data-driven approach to product and team decisions. Notably, his background spans sales-engineering wins and academic teaching, giving him a rare mix of customer empathy, go-to-market insight, and technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning at Columbia University in the City of New York
Universidad de los Andes
English, French