Adam Gerard
Software Engineer at JPMorganChase
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Gerard is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building and shipping production systems across finance, telecom, and adtech, currently at JPMorgan Chase after recent roles at Capital One and several fintech/payments teams. He blends hands-on engineering with communicator instincts from a background in technical writing and a master's in philosophy, enabling clear documentation and cross-team collaboration. Adam has moved fluidly between full-time, contract, and developer-relations roles, often joining teams where product fit matters enough to make quick, principled decisions about offers. Based in Champaign, IL, he maintains a personal code presence on GitHub while keeping most personal projects on GitLab, reflecting a pragmatic, privacy-conscious approach to his open-source work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. English Language and Literature/Letters, B.A. English Language and Literature/Letters at Iowa State UniversityNon-Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Non-Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityM.A. Philosophy, M.A. Philosophy at Northern Illinois University
French, English
Stackoverflow
716reputation
1.9mreached
43answers
11questions
Github Skills (89)
authentication10
spring-security10
security10
java10
spring-boot10
spring10
oauth10
kubernetes9
analytics-tracking9
mandrill8
render8
hugo8
blockchain8
ethereum8
bitcoin8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Thoughtscript/academic_papers
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
DEPRECATED: Academic and professional articles
Contributions:1 PR, 171 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
professional
Thoughtscript/ontic_be
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 88 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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