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Sebastián Gutiérrez

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I build data systems that handle real scale, and I make sure the people who depend on them actually understand what they do.

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Apple

Nov 2024 — PresentContract

Senior engineer and primary owner of four of the five systems in an internal, end-to-end operational analytics platform at Apple — a Kubernetes-native blob-ingestion pipeline (~1,000 pods, ~150k jobs/day), a multi-tenant FastAPI gateway, a Django + React analytics/ML platform, and a shared multi-backend Python SDK — serving 300+ users across 3 countries on a six-person team.

Software ArchitectFull Stack DeveloperBackend DeveloperPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLFastAPIDjangoDjango NinjaData InfrastructureAnalyticsDeveloper ToolsDistributed SystemsDistributed LockingCachingProduction SystemMulti-TenantEnterprise ScaleTechnical LeadershipLeadershipMentorship

Primary owner/maintainer of four of five systems in an internal operational-analytics platform serving 300+ users across 3 countries, on a 6-person engineering team

uPlanner

Jul 2021 — Oct 2024Full-Time

Data Engineer at a 90-person AI-powered EdTech SaaS (FT Fastest Growing 2023, ISO 27001) serving 30+ higher-education institutions across 3 continents — owned ETL/ELT pipelines, all D2L Brightspace LMS integrations across 5 international clients, the Pentaho → Azure Synapse migration, and a Streamlit internal platform with 20+ tools.

Data EngineerBackend DeveloperPythonSQLAzureAzure Synapse AnalyticsAzure Data LakePandasStreamlitPySparkEdTechSaaSB2B SaaSETLELTData PipelinesProduction SystemMulti-TenantMulti-ClientMentorshipCross-Functional CollaborationClient-Facing

Eliminated 250+ hours of manual teacher work per semester for a Colombian university client via curriculum-upload automation against the D2L Brightspace API

AidProf

Dec 2020 — Feb 2022Full-Time

Co-founded an EdTech SaaS that automated STEM exam grading using computer vision, OCR, and NLP; as the only engineer, designed and shipped the entire platform — Django app, AWS infrastructure, and a 10-stage automated grading pipeline.

Product OwnerFounderFull Stack DeveloperPythonSQLHTMLAWSAWS EC2AWS S3DjangoPandasNumPyEdTechSaaSOCRComputer VisionNLPProduction SystemGreenfieldMVPEntrepreneurshipProduct OwnershipTechnical Leadership

Sole technical co-founder on a 3-person team; wrote ~90% of the codebase across product, infrastructure, and ML pipeline

Silabuz

Mar 2018 — Nov 2019Freelance

Event-based mentor (≈10 events) for high-school students working on personal technology projects — focused on shaping how students think: approaching problems as entrepreneurs, applying critical thinking to new technologies, and moving through innovation circles.

EdTechInnovationTeachingMentorshipCommunication

Mentored high-school students across ≈10 targeted events on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation methodology

School of Tech

Jan 2017 — Feb 2021Part-Time

Four years (alongside university) at an EdTech company bringing programming, robotics, and innovation courses to schools — grew from instructor to co-owner of an internal teacher-training program, teaching kids across 7 institutions in 2 countries, training 750+ teachers, and doing early product/go-to-market work.

PythonJavaScriptHTMLGoogle WorkspaceArduinoEdTechRoboticsStatistical AnalysisData VisualizationMulti-ClientInternational ClientsTeachingMentorshipCommunication

Taught programming, robotics, and electronics across 7 educational institutions in 2 countries (students aged 10–18)