Gaston Gerchkovich
Principal Software Engineer Architect at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaston Gerchkovich is a Principal Software Engineer and architect with 12 years of experience designing hyperscale distributed systems and security platforms for Microsoft and Meta. He has led engineering efforts that operate at trillions of requests per day, delivering zero-trust architectures, large-scale abuse prevention, and inline observability that reduced attack surface by up to 10x and cut privileged access by 96%. Gaston blends deep systems engineering—rearchitecting services for horizontal scale and automating DevOps—to achieve measurable business outcomes like $1M+ annual savings and dramatically improved developer leverage. He’s equally focused on organizational impact, from mentoring and building technical leaders to driving org-wide strategy and clear, metric-driven execution. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a pragmatic mix of hands-on implementation and cross-team leadership that enables safe-by-default ML development and resilient, high-throughput telemetry platforms.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ORTBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English, hebew
Github Skills (12)
csharp9
dotnet9
coreclr8
dotnet-core8
microsoft6
scala3
functional-programming3
client-library2
rest-client2
rest2
slack2
hbase2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Gerko32/MLEvaluation
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
jmueller1644/410Final
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 tags in 3 days
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