Gerald Pharin
Software Engineering Manager at FREEZING POINT
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolGerald Pharin is a software engineering manager and product-minded technologist with 11 years of experience building scalable web and cloud systems across startups and enterprises. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing front-end work to high-profile open source projects like the BBC's Simorgh—with product leadership roles at AWS and Tractable, shipping customer-facing features and observability tooling. His background in physics and recent MBA/MS in Business Analytics gives him a rare mix of rigorous analytical thinking and strategic business acumen for turning complex requirements into reliable, data-driven products. Gerald has a track record of mentoring engineers and leading small teams to reduce incidents and deliver high-traffic services, and he enjoys bridging product, infrastructure, and user experience to create measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at University of Utah - David Eccles School of BusinessBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KumasiDiploma in General Science General Science, Diploma in General Science General Science at Presbyterian Boys' High School, Legon
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 174 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Gerald primarily contributed to the front-end of the BBC Simorgh web application, focusing on new features and enhancements. Their work included adding most-watched functionality to the request context, updating bundle sizes related to these features, and integrating tests for routes and components. The commits reveal ongoing development of a "most watched" page and related components within the application.
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GluuFederation/guru-app
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Gluu Guru support app
Contributions:126 PRs, 138 pushes, 62 branches in 8 months
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