Luc Talatinian
Software Engineer at aws
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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RockstarLuc Talatinian is a pragmatic and curious SDE III on the AWS SDK for Go team with four years of professional experience building and maintaining backend services and developer tooling. He combines deep systems-level skills in C/C++11, Go, Python, JavaScript, and Verilog with a knack for shipping reliable fixes and tests—recent contributions include serialization fixes, integration tests, and dependency upgrades in the widely used aws-sdk-go(-v2) repositories. Known for creative, button-pressing problem solving and an unusually strong memory for alphanumeric strings, he excels at tracking down tricky protocol and error-deserialization edge cases. His background spans customer-facing web apps at Exacq to backend platform work at MarketCast and AWS, and he brings hands-on engineering with an educator’s clarity from years as a calculus TA.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
aws-s310
aws-sdk10
api-rest10
rest-api10
error-handling10
go10
amazon-s310
api-design10
restful-api10
s3-bucket10
testing10
serialization9
data-serialization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Feb 2023 - Jul 2026
AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:387 reviews, 446 PRs, 548 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Luc primarily contributed to the AWS SDK for Go programming language, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the S3 service. Their work involved upgrading dependencies, particularly Smithy, and addressing issues related to serialization, specifically related to empty lists within the EC2 query protocol. The user also made multiple contributions related to testing, including the introduction of integration tests and adding client config passthrough to waiter options. Furthermore, they were involved in addressing potential issues related to S3 Express authorization.
aws-sdkgoprogramming-languagegolangaws
aws/aws-sdk-go
Feb 2023 - Jul 2025
This SDK has reached end-of-support. The AWS SDK for Go v2 is available here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 74 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Luc focused on fixing error deserialization issues within the AWS SDK for Go, specifically addressing cases where the response body was missing or contained specific error types. They implemented changes related to header serialization of empty enum lists and prevented unused time imports in event streams, further enhancing the SDK's functionality. Additionally, the user backported a fix related to shared configuration, demonstrating a commitment to maintaining and improving the stability of the SDK.
awsaws-sdkaws-sdk-go-v2go
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