Summary
Gerald Burke is a software developer and educator based in Johnson City, Tennessee, with eight years of hands-on experience building SaaS applications and teaching computer science. He transitioned from a decade in retail and warehouse roles into technology, earning a BS in Computer Science and pursuing an MS in Software Engineering with an AI focus while moving up the engineering ladder at ECRS. Gerald has practical experience in Agile teams, CI/CD pipelines, and issue-tracking for government-focused products, and he’s comfortable mentoring students and peers through tutoring and college instruction. Equally at home debugging production bugs as he is designing lecture labs, he combines a practitioner’s attention to detail with a teacher’s clarity—working and writing from the mountains of Northeast Tennessee.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering - AI, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering - AI at Western Governors University
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Programming, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Programming at Northeast State Community College