Nico Kicillof

About Nico Kicillof

Hands-on CTO and technology leader with extensive experience overseeing and leading the vision, strategy and personnel of cross-functional organizations. Passion for people, innovation, quality, and automation. Entrepreneur with a track record of envisioning, developing and selling profitable businesses. Successfully scaled research initiatives into market-ready commercial offerings. Strong customer focus and ability to adjust quickly to changing industry trends. Agile leader and practitioner known for developing people, products and solutions.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering, Machine Learning Silicon Innovation

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   May 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Leading a team applying Generative AI to simplify porting models and optimizing them to run on AWS Trainium and Inferentia Machine Learning accelerators. Our organization designs and builds Amazon\'s custom silicon chips, servers, and software for our customers ourselves to run training an inference workloads with the lowest possible price/performance ratio.

Education

• Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires

  High school, Science

  1982 — 1987

• ESLAI

  Computer Science

  1990 — 1991

• University of Buenos Aires

  MS, Computer Science

  1988 — 1997

Skills

• People Development
• Software Modeling
• Software Engineering
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Distributed Systems
• Algorithms
• Mobile Applications
• Tfs
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Windows Phone
• Unified Modeling Language (Uml)
• Architectures
• People Management
• Software Project Management
• Programming
• Mobile Devices
• Agile Methodologies
• Smartphones
• C++
• Agile Project Management
• Web Services
• Project Management
• Sql
• Strategic Planning
• Uml
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Computer Science
• People Skills
• Software Design
• Software Development Tools
• Architecture
• Testing
• Microsoft Operating Systems
• Object Oriented Design
• Test Driven Development
• Design Patterns
• Mobile Technology