Summary
Winston Galas is a San Francisco–based software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building consumer-facing web and mobile products and cloud services, currently contributing at AWS. As technical co-founder and full-stack engineer of Crave It, he launched a social app for food lovers, combining product instincts with end-to-end engineering and go-to-market experience. He pairs formal training from App Academy with a BA in Cinema, which shows up in his strong product empathy, UX sensibility, and history as a freelance videographer/editor. Winston has also mentored aspiring developers and delivered production software at startups like Springshot, demonstrating a blend of coaching ability and execution under constraints. He brings entrepreneurial grit—having run his own startup and driven user growth—together with the scalability mindset needed at a major cloud provider.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cinema, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cinema at San Francisco State University
Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy