Ionut Trestian
Vice President at Goldman Sachs
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIonut Trestian is a Vice President and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building developer-facing platforms and large-scale cloud services, currently leading Developer Experience at Goldman Sachs. He previously spent years at Amazon Web Services working on AppSync and Cognito, and earlier built scalable product-compliance algorithms in Amazon’s Retail Catalog. With a PhD-level background in EECS from Northwestern and dual BS degrees from Technical University of Cluj Napoca, he combines deep research training with hands-on production engineering. Ionut has a track record of bridging open source, cloud-native services, and developer tooling, often operating at the intersection of real-time data, serverless architectures, and platform usability. Based in Seattle, he brings both technical leadership and a knack for turning complex distributed systems into reliable developer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at UW Foster School of BusinessBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj NapocaPhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityKellogg School of Management
English, Romanian, Spanish, Italian
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amazon-web-services
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Github Skills (60)
javascript10
react-native10
aws-sdk-js-v310
amazon-cognito10
authentication-flow10
amazon-web-services10
aws-sdk10
aws10
aws-amplify10
aws-s310
react10
risk-management9
appsync-resolvers9
authentication9
aws-appsync9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
amazon-archives/amazon-cognito-identity-js
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
Amazon Cognito Identity SDK for JavaScript
Contributions:20 releases, 115 PRs, 257 pushes in 2 years 9 months
amazon-cognitojavascriptuser-poolcognito-identityaws-sdk
itrestian/open-developer-platform
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Delivering open source software development best practices while enforcing security and legal compliance for the financial services industry
Contributions:9 pushes in 9 months
financiallegalsecurityindustrycompliance
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