Gary Keorkunian
Principal Architect at Thrivent
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolGary Keorkunian is a Principal Architect with over a decade of experience designing and operationalizing large-scale distributed systems, SaaS platforms, and cloud-native architectures. He has led cross-organizational transformations—introducing event-sourcing, CQRS, streaming, feature flags, and observability—to accelerate delivery and improve reliability at multi-billion dollar enterprises. A hands-on technologist, Gary has driven migrations to GCP, built platform libraries and scaffolds, and contributed to the Scala ecosystem (notably enhancing Money and time-frequency features in the popular squants library). He pairs technical leadership with product collaboration, mentoring engineers and briefing executives to align architecture with business outcomes. A US Army veteran, he brings disciplined execution and pragmatic DevOps experience from early startups through large enterprises.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Computer Information Systems and Finance, BBA Computer Information Systems and Finance at Temple University
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Github Skills (16)
scala10
unit-testing10
finance10
bigdecimal10
financial10
calculation10
calc10
twitter9
data-structures8
data-structure8
sql-server6
json6
math6
iso6
excel6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/squants
Mar 2017 - May 2022
The Scala API for Quantities, Units of Measure and Dimensional Analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 130 commits, 84 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily focused on enhancing the `Money` functionality within the `squants` library. Their contributions included adding methods for rounding, mapping amounts, and improving string formatting of money values. Furthermore, the user implemented frequency enhancements, introducing operators to support time-related calculations. They also addressed precision issues in money calculations and improved interoperability between different data types within the library.
apiunits-of-measuredimensionalunitsscala
psung/squants
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
apiunits-of-measuredimensionalunitsscala
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