Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza, known as GPS, is a senior developer experience advocate at GitHub and a core maintainer of Learn to Cloud. She creates technical explanations and practical learning paths for cloud infrastructure and AI-assisted software development.[1][2][3]
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Links
Personal site
GitHub · madebygps 
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Career
Earlier Microsoft tutorials publish Peña-Siguenza as a senior cloud advocate. Her Azure Cosmos DB Python series starts with provisioning and connection, then develops operations through the SDK. In an earlier account of entering the field, she describes leaving college after one semester, working in repair and help-desk roles, and teaching herself to code.[5][6]
Contributions
Learn to Cloud builds from Linux and networking toward an AI API that learners deploy, automate and secure. The curriculum combines explanations with practical work and feedback through checks and AI-assisted review. Peña-Siguenza helps maintain this open-source learning path; the learner’s task is to build and understand working infrastructure rather than only collect definitions.[3][4]
Ideas
Her GitHub article discusses AI-development arguments with Marlene Mhangami and Cassidy Williams: whether developers should read generated code, whether RAG is obsolete and whether skills replace MCP. The discussion treats these as questions about understanding, grounding and tool access. The useful unit is an actual development workflow, where these mechanisms solve different problems and a developer still owns the result.[2]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
Start here
Learn to Cloudlearntocloud.guideA practical cloud curriculum covering infrastructure, deployment, automation and security.
Start with the prerequisites and Linux phase. The guide is free; later exercises require a development environment and cloud resources.
Writing, research & talks
A discussion of the responsibilities and tools involved in AI-assisted development.
Author, discussing with Marlene Mhangami and Cassidy Williams[2]Original source- Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB using the Python SDKdevblogs.microsoft.com
The start of a practical Python and Cosmos DB tutorial series.
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