About Walter Gugenberger

I've been a software engineer since 2014, currently at Scale AI in Washington DC. I grew up in Austria and studied computer science there, a bachelor's in Innsbruck and a master's in Linz. My first job was at a logistics company.

My wife, an American from Louisiana, brought me to the US. I ran a consulting firm and started a food truck app that didn't survive COVID. Then I joined Improving, an IT consultancy, which placed me at Anadarko Petroleum's innovation lab in Houston to work on drilling analytics. We moved to DC. I did a stint at Capital One, then AWS, and joined Scale AI's public sector team in September 2026.

At AWS my team owned AWS Transit Gateway, Reachability Analyzer, Network Access Analyzer, and Traffic Mirroring.

Now

On the side I build Marquis, software that tracks press coverage for my wife's PR firm. This blog is a record of that work and how I use AI to do it.

Contact

LinkedIn is the best way to reach me. Code is on GitHub. Opinions are my own.