Gerald Sornsen is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Jose with nine years of software and systems engineering experience and a background in avionics from the U.S. Air Force. He has progressed from hands-on roles building instrumentation software, custom Debian packages, and Ansible-provisioned Linux images to leading engineering teams at Picarro and now Lattice, focusing on AI-powered product experiences. Gerald combines deep operational troubleshooting and field service experience with product engineering discipline, enabling reliable hardware-software integrations and scalable support processes. He is comfortable across the stack—Python, React, Linux packaging, cloud storage—and brings practical expertise in building service teams and tooling for industrial and semiconductor platforms. Known for translating complex instrumentation requirements into maintainable software and repeatable test methods, he blends rigorous systems thinking with a bias for shipping.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Big Lake High School, Big Lake, MN
Associate of Science (AS) Avionics Systems Technology, Associate of Science (AS) Avionics Systems Technology at Community College of the Air Force
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Arkansas Grantham
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
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Gerald Sornsen - Senior Engineering Manager at Lattice