Summary
Gene Gurvich is a Principal engineering leader in New York with 11 years of experience building and managing software across stealth startups, growth-stage companies, Fortune 100s, academia, and non-profits. He is a polyglot developer comfortable in Go, TypeScript, Python, and Ruby, and has led teams through cloud-native, microservices, and data-driven architectures using AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and GraphQL. Gene blends first-principles design with strong user feedback loops, prioritizing pragmatic, test-driven delivery and team practices like pair programming and mutual accountability. His background spans hands-on engineering and leadership roles up to VP of Engineering, demonstrating an ability to scale both systems and teams. Colleagues value his emotional intelligence and empathy as much as his technical depth, and he frequently explores new languages and frameworks to solve real-world problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Russian