Summary
Gary Hall is a pragmatic full-stack developer with about a decade of professional software experience and a longer history of systems programming dating back to the 1990s. He currently develops at Concordia Publishing House and maintains practical DevOps and WordPress skills—having optimized a small business site with CDN, HTTPS/HSTS, and security headers—while previously shepherding a Ruby on Rails product from legacy code to production. His background blends formal computer science training with a Master of Divinity and over a decade as a parish pastor, giving him strong communication, teaching, and counseling abilities that help translate complex technical concepts for nontechnical stakeholders. Comfortable across languages and environments from C and Oracle to Rails and cloud services, he’s as likely to write automation scripts or deployment guides as he is to lead a Bible study. Based in High Ridge, Missouri, he balances family life with hands-on engineering and community leadership.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
CPE-4 units, Institutional Chaplaincy, CPE-4 units, Institutional Chaplaincy at Clinical Pastoral Education
Computer Science, Computer Science at City University of New York-College of Staten Island
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Northeastern University
Web Development, Web Development at The Odin Project
Master of Divinity - MDiv, Theology/Theological Studies, Master of Divinity - MDiv, Theology/Theological Studies at Concordia Seminary St Louis
Spanish