Summary
Gary Arnold is a staff software engineer and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of multi-language, multi-platform experience and 11 years in senior engineering roles. He has a track record of building and scaling teams and products—from founding engineering orgs and serving as CTO to leading global infrastructure at Google and delivering production AI pipelines. Gary combines product-oriented decision making with hands-on execution: shipping HIPAA-compliant systems, serverless scraping platforms, and production-grade RAG/LLM evaluation tooling that cut AI costs by half. He’s driven engineering transformations—raising test coverage dramatically, introducing secure engineering practices, and modernizing legacy stacks for dramatic performance gains. Based in the Waterloo region, he thrives on mentoring strong teams and deliberately hires people smarter than himself to tackle world-shaking problems. A pragmatic polyglot engineer, he blends systems, data, and security sensibilities to move complex projects from prototype to reliable production.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
CSEE, CSEE at University of California, Berkeley
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