Jack Gerrits
Vice President, Applied Generative AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Gerrits is a software leader with 11 years of experience, currently Vice President of Applied Generative AI at D. E. Shaw after a multi-year research and principal engineering career at Microsoft in NYC. He specializes in multi-agent systems, robust software design, and high-performance architectures, with deep hands-on experience in Rust, C++ and Python. Jack is a core contributor to Microsoft’s widely used AutoGen framework for agentic AI, where he accelerated adoption through documentation and Jupyter Notebook support. His background combines applied AI research with low-level systems work — he graduated with a perfect 7.0/7.0 from the University of Adelaide and previously implemented a FLUSH+RELOAD side-channel proof-of-concept on Google’s Native Client.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Advanced), 7.0/7.0, Bachelor of Computer Science (Advanced), 7.0/7.0 at University of AdelaideSummer Study Tour, Artificial Intelligence, Summer Study Tour, Artificial Intelligence at Harbin Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
documentations10
documentation10
python9
jupyter-notebook9
ssl6
https6
keystore6
training-data6
server6
reinforcement-learning6
vowpalwabbit6
java6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/autogen
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A programming framework for agentic AI 🤖 PyPi: autogen-agentchat Discord: https://aka.ms/autogen-discord Office Hour: https://aka.ms/autogen-officehour
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 576 reviews, 571 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily worked on documentation, installation, and Jupyter Notebook support for the AutoGen project. They implemented documentation for the installation process, including splitting it into multiple parts and fixing links. Additionally, the user added initial Jupyter Notebook support for website docs, including moving configuration notebooks, and updated the sidebar.
agenticagentic-agiagentsaiautogen
jackgerrits/reductionml
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
Reduction-based machine learning framework with a focus on contextual bandits
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 167 PRs in 3 months
contextual-banditsdata-sciencemachine-learningonline-learningrust
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