Summary
George Toretta is a VP of Software Engineering with 12+ years of experience and six years as a hands-on technical lead and manager, currently driving engineering at Gerson Lehrman Group from White Plains, NY. He blends a passion for modern architectures and testing with practical expertise in Continuous Delivery, Node.js, AngularJS and Git to enable multiple reliable production deployments per day. George has led modernization of legacy systems, introduced CI/CD and TDD practices, and integrated ML/AI features to improve user experience while reducing technical debt. He pairs product-driven engineering—shaping user stories from direct user feedback—with strong operational focus, building real-time monitoring and database optimizations to improve uptime and throughput. Known for fostering a learning culture, he encourages internal blogging, knowledge sharing and automation to accelerate delivery and team growth.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Scranton