About

Hi, my name is Constantin Gonzalez and this is my blog.

You can find out more about me on my my LinkedIn profile and my Bluesky page.

Life

My current home is in Munich, Germany. I live here with my wife Friederike, my daughters Amanda and Helena, and our dog Elvis.

Business

I’m a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where I help customers in Germany build new and innovative solutions in the Cloud.

Bio

Born June 23rd, 1971 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, grew up in Bogotá (Colombia), Istanbul (Turkey), Bonn-Bad Godesberg (Germany), Rome (Italy). According to Wikipedia, that makes me a Third Culture Kid. Finished a “Diplom Informatiker” degree at the Clausthal University of Technology in Computer Science (now that would probably be called a “Master’s degree”). During my university time, I was CEO of a pub, played a role in a theater, helped publish a newspaper and showed movies in the local cinema. My thesis was around helping create the first web-enabled digital set top box project in Germany. That was 1997-98. In 1998 I joined Sun Microsystems and in 2012 I left Oracle to join AWS where I get to learn about and build with cool technology every day. Today, I explore the world of AI and how it affects personal and job productivity.