Gary Passero
Principal Software Engineer at Flytedesk
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGary Passero is a Principal Software Engineer with three decades of professional experience and a 12-year recent track record leading architecture and teams in web and embedded systems. He specializes in pragmatic, object-oriented design and test-driven engineering, having led agile transformations and authored architecture for a modular Rails-based supply-side ad platform. Comfortable across stacks from C++ and embedded CORBA systems to modern Ruby on Rails with Hotwire and React, he focuses on sustainable, maintainable solutions that balance short-term delivery with long-term product value. Gary has repeatedly mentored engineers and grown teams while delivering complex projects across healthcare, telecom, imaging, and ad tech domains. He is as passionate about teaching engineering craft as he is about building clean, useful software that actually works, and he often architects solutions that maximize reuse and minimize organizational waste. Based in Rochester, NY, he pairs advanced CS credentials (MS, RIT) with a willingness to tackle high-complexity problems and rapidly learn new domains.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
loresoft/Calculator
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
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