Gabriel Jimenez
Vice President Of Engineering at American Express
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Jimenez is a Vice President of Engineering with over a decade of FinTech experience at American Express, currently leading identity and cybersecurity engineering for a global Customer 360 modernization. He combines deep hands-on technical breadth—from mainframe migrations to cloud-native microservices, reactive Java, and NoSQL/search stacks—with a proven ability to translate product value into robust technical roadmaps. Gabriel has led diverse, distributed teams and vendor portfolios of 40+ people to deliver multi-year transformation programs that improved personalization, engagement and revenue while reducing costs. He is an inventor with open-source frameworks and multiple patents (two issued, two pending), bringing a practical innovator’s mindset to enterprise-scale problems. Known for insisting on craftsmanship and measurable efficiencies, he also pairs a quant-inclined curiosity and crypto interest with a talent for federated, reusable platform design. Based in Miami, he blends architectural rigor with a track record of motivating teams to exceed objectives.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated Top 1% of Class, Graduated Top 1% of Class at Barbara Goleman Senior High SchoolMaster of Science, Computer Science - IT Management, Summa cum laude, Master of Science, Computer Science - IT Management, Summa cum laude at Nova Southeastern UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Cum laude, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Cum laude at University of Florida
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
maturity10
rest-api10
faas10
rest10
rapid-development10
spring10
reactive10
webflux10
java10
helium7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
americanexpress/synapse
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Synapse is a set of lightweight foundational framework modules for rapid development, built-in with enterprise-grade maturity and quality.
Contributions:1 release, 88 reviews, 366 commits in 1 year 9 months
reactivematurityenterprise-gradegradespring
cuztomizer/cuztomizer
Jul 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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