Summary
Gary Poster is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with nearly two decades of experience building remote-first, high-performing R&D organizations that ship product and platform improvements across backend, frontend, APIs, and developer tooling. He has a track record of scaling teams from founder-stage to acquisition and corporate leadership—driving launches like cloud security products, API gateways, marketplace platforms, and developer CLIs—while raising engineering standards and delivery cadence. Equally hands-on in architecture and people work, he pairs technical depth in PaaS/SaaS, databases, gRPC/GraphQL, and DevOps with strong cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and GTM. A former professional singer and music instructor, he brings unusual discipline and presentation skills to leadership, and a long history of fostering positive, aligned cultures in distributed teams.
19 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music (M.M.) Vocal Performance and Literature, Master of Music (M.M.) Vocal Performance and Literature at Eastman School of Music
(All but dissertation towards Doctor of Music) Voice and Opera, (All but dissertation towards Doctor of Music) Voice and Opera at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Bachelor of Music (B.M.) Vocal Performance and Literature, Bachelor of Music (B.M.) Vocal Performance and Literature at Furman University