Gerald Spencer
Principal Software Engineer at Flux Foundation
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolGerald Spencer is a Principal Software Engineer based in Oakland, CA, with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure and reliability systems. He has progressed from mechanical engineering roots to leading infrastructure and SRE organizations at companies like 3Scan, Strateos, Skydio, Cruise, and now NVIDIA, demonstrating a knack for translating complex hardware-adjacent problems into robust software platforms. As Head Technologist at the Flux Foundation since 2015, he blends technical leadership with strategic vision in distributed systems and platform engineering. Gerald excels at bridging production engineering, site reliability, and management—scaling teams and tooling while keeping uptime and delivery predictable. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of hands-on incident leadership and long-term architecting for cloud-native, robotics, and autonomous systems. He brings practical, cross-disciplinary insight from a mechanical engineering degree into software-driven operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at California Maritime Academy
Github Skills (200)
python10
terraform10
automation10
ssh10
network-configuration10
continuous-delivery10
laravel10
pipeline10
ansible10
continuous-deployment10
container10
device-management10
aws-lambda10
mosquitto10
cicd10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Geethree/g3-site
Jan 2018 - Feb 2024
My personal website
Contributions:102 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
reactnextjs
temple2018/Galaxia
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Temple Galaxia - Burning Man 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 28 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 months
gametempleburning
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