Summary
Gerard Kerr is a Lead Data & AI Engineer and people-focused technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling application support, data, and cloud solutions across industries from pharmaceuticals and forensics to oil & gas. Trained as a physicist (MPhys, University of Edinburgh), he combines quantitative curiosity with broad technical fluency—AWS/Azure architecture, DB optimization, SQL, and Unix—allowing him to solve cross-domain problems and modernize complex scientific applications. He built and led Tessella’s North American support and development function, growing a technical team, driving revenue, and delivering large migrations and cloud transformations. Gerard blends hands-on technical consulting with strategic leadership, creating internal programs for empowerment, remote work best practices, and new service offerings. Colleagues rely on him as a hybrid architect and team builder who still dives into level-3 troubleshooting when projects demand it. Based in Woburn, MA, he is known for turning curiosity-driven experiments into practical, revenue-generating services.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at The University of Edinburgh
Rathmore Grammar School, Belfast
English