# Joaquín Gómez > Software Development Engineer at AWS Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joaqun Computer science undergraduate with interests and experience in robotics and controls. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2024 – Present | New York, NY Drove the execution of a multi-phase migration of private pricing contract data, reconciling different data models while preserving downstream billing compatibility. Designed and implemented system retrofits to maintain legacy contract semantics, executed large-scale backfills via MCM protocols with layered audits, and authored system-wide validations to ensure data integrity ahead of billing cycles. Partnered closely with downstream consumers during billing to mitigate misbilling risk. Built reporting and operational tooling (ops reports, billing dashboards, validation scripts) to support audit accuracy and operational visibility. Earlier, owned a region deployment of a billing-critical service to an air-gapped partition, involving implementing environment-specific configurations, security-compliant workarounds, validation, and operational readiness to support isolated production environments. In parallel, picked up operational support for the billing system, including oncall rotations and monthly billing cycle support. Strengthened team operational processes by authoring SOPs, updating runbooks, and building automated validations and audits to improve billing reliability. ### Teaching Assistant - Robotic Systems @ Caltech Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Served as a teaching assistant for Caltech's advanced robotics course, supporting student teams in designing, building, and programming custom robotic arms (5–7 degrees of freedom) capable of fully autonomous operation. Guided teams through the integration of hardware, kinematics and control, computer vision, and autonomous behaviors using ROS (Robot Operating System). Assisted with debugging hardware and software issues, provided feedback on team designs, and helped teams scope, prioritize, and triage features in preparation of final demonstration. ### Teaching Assistant - Computing Systems @ Caltech Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Served as a teaching assistant for Caltech's core computing systems course, supporting students in bridging the gap between high-level software and underlying hardware. Guided students through topics spanning computer architecture (x86-64 assembly), memory management (virtual memory, caching, dynamic allocation via custom malloc, garbage collection), process management and concurrency (processes, threads, pthreads, mutexes, condition variables, signals, exceptions), and systems security (buffer overflow exploits, side-channel attacks, Meltdown). Assisted with grading and extensive debugging office hours across projects including a simplified Java Virtual Machine, a binary bomb, a BASIC-to-x86-64 compiler, custom memory allocators, a virtual memory OS kernel, a real-world Meltdown attack implementation, and a concurrent password cracker. ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, WA Developed a graph analysis tool for Amazon's retail ordering orchestration platform, which managed large-scale workflows (hundreds of nodes, thousands of edges) coordinating business logic from purchase through delivery. Leveraged production logs to trace node entry/exit patterns and identify workflow optimization opportunities (for example, unreachable nodes, never-traversed edges, and consistently failing states). Analysis identified 15–25% reducible nodes and up to 30% reducible edges across workflows. Designed and built the tool's internal UI console, enabling engineers to explore workflow analysis results interactively. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Paerpay Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 • Wrote front-end for contactless payment startup • Gained experience with rapid-iteration startup work • Learned about routing, Firestore databases, hooks, and asynchronous programming ### Formula SAE Battery Team Member @ Caltech Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pasadena, California, United States • Team builds and competes with a new electric racecar every year • Helped redesign battery to have lower CoM on car and for improved cooling • Set up and analyzed battery cell thermal simulations using SolidWorks and Ansys ### Caltech Latino Association of Students in Engineering and Sciences @ Caltech Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Secretary for CLASES - help plan and run events, brainstorm outreach opportunities, take meeting minutes ### Summer Research Intern @ Caltech Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Pasadena, California, United States • Computational fluid dynamics research • Wrote and validated code for computationally efficient methane simulations • Learned to navigate and operate on Linux/command-line environment ### Software Development Intern @ Hass Software Consulting Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Developed UI and some back-end on an NIH grant-funded project focused on improving palliative care in Nepal • Gained experience interpreting and meeting customer asks • Gained experience using version control software (Git) to manage codebase changes ### Team Captain @ FIRST Robotics Competition Team 4087 - Voodoo Voltage Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States • Led team of 35 through designing and constructing 120 lb. robots in six weeks to compete at multiple large-scale arena competitions • Guided subteam in programming the control system on the robot • Advanced team to the World Championship twice • Aided in planning and execution of community outreach events for underserved youth resulting in a yearly 8-week youth robotics summer camp ### Student Research Intern @ Advanced Materials Research Institute Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States • Characterized the conductivity of cuprate perovskites - looking for high-temp superconductor • Learned standard laboratory practices and research techniques • Learned to use and interpret X-ray spectroscopic data ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Caltech ### Graduate Benjamin Franklin High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joaquinagomez --- Source: https://flows.cv/joaqun JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joaqun/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05