# Ryan Guest

> Principal Engineer (Data Privacy) at Amazon

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanguest

Software engineer working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Interested in:

Data Privacy
Data Science
Software Quality and Testing
Distributed Systems
Cryptography and Web Security

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Data Privacy

### Privacy Engineering Advisory Board Member @ IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Software Architect @ Salesforce.com
Jan 2008 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software engineer and product owner for multiple scrum teams. Focused on building out security platforms and services. 

A brief history of my different roles at Salesforce: 

08/2017 - Present Software Architect
Technical lead for the GDPR effort.
Also working on privacy and security.

03/2014 - 08/2017 Principal Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce Shield

06/2012 - 03/2014 Lead Member of Technical Staff
Communities

06/2010 - 06/2012 Senior Member of Technical Staff
Site.com

01/2009 - 06/2010 Member of Technical Staff
My Domain

03/2008  -01/2009 Associate Member of Technical Staff
Force.com Sites

### Co-Founder @ Pleading Prep
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
PleadingPrep was an online service for civil litigators to download and collaborate on legal documents.

I worked on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack.

### Undergrad Intern @ Amgen
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
Data/stats/reporting internship: ITIL Change Management, VBA/Excel Reporting, Cognos Reports

### Information Technology Intern @ Therapeutic Research Center
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006
Palm/Windows Mobile QA
AJAX, VB.NET


## Education
### Computer Science in Statistics, Database Systems
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryanguest
- Portfolio: https://ryan-guest.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12