Emil Lerch
WW GTM Specialist - DevOps Builders Experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEmil Lerch is a seasoned DevOps and cloud specialist with 15 years of experience building and deploying enterprise software, currently shaping developer and builder experiences at AWS. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to projects like the Cromwell workflow engine and .NET asset tooling—with strategic delivery work from prior Principal Consultant and Chief Technical Architect roles. Emil holds a BS in Computer Science from Lehigh and an MBA from Babson, combining technical depth with product and go-to-market acumen. His background spans large-scale cloud integrations, AWS Batch optimizations, and operationalizing scientific workflows, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and scale. Based in Portland, he brings a rare mix of low-level implementation detail (unit-test and encoding fixes) and high-level program leadership for public sector and enterprise customers. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex cloud capabilities into repeatable, production-ready solutions that reduce time-to-market.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Lehigh UniversityMBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College
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unit-testing10
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develop10
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asp-net-core10
scala10
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dotnet-core10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/cromwell
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 86 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Emil's commits primarily focus on enhancing the AWS Batch backend implementation within the Cromwell workflow engine. They refactored code to remove unnecessary dependencies and added support for features like volume mounting and unique file paths for AWS Batch jobs. Furthermore, the user integrated the Cromwell agent for improved workflow management. The changes involve adapting the system to better interact with AWS Batch and incorporate new capabilities for job execution within the cloud environment.
casestransitionbioinformaticsworkflow-executioncommon-workflow-language
andrewdavey/cassette
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Manages .NET web application assets (scripts, css and templates)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Emil focused on enhancing the project's ability to handle different `Accept-Encoding` requests within the ASP.NET environment. Their work included implementing support for `qvalue` parameters in the `Accept-Encoding` header, ensuring the correct selection and application of compression (gzip, deflate) based on the client's preferences. This work involved writing and refining unit tests to validate the correct behavior of the encoding logic, including test cases for various scenarios with and without qvalues. Furthermore, the user fixed test typos and ensured test portability.
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