Gerard Sychay
Vice President Of Engineering at Differential
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolGerard Sychay is a startup-focused engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering teams across VC-backed startups, agencies, and nonprofits. Currently VP of Engineering at Differential, he combines hands-on full‑stack development (Node, Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres/MongoDB) with operational responsibilities to ship both B2C and B2B products. He has a track record of leading early product development and grew engineering at Homebuyer.com while previously creating Differential’s Apprenticeship program to accelerate junior developer careers. An active contributor to open-source tooling, his work spans front‑end and backend improvements (notably on a Meteor boilerplate and reliability enhancements to the jobby cron manager). Based in Cincinnati, he also brings entrepreneurial chops from founding the city’s first coworking space and years of running freelance and studio MVP efforts. Gerard pairs practical engineering depth with a talent for coaching teams to deliver scalable, reliable products.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of CincinnatiMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (25)
cron10
javascript10
php10
meteor10
routers9
router9
facebook9
css9
iron9
html9
mongodb8
architectures8
mongodb-database8
architecture8
coffeescript8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jobbyphp/jobby
Oct 2012 - Nov 2018
Manage all your cron jobs without modifying crontab. Handles locking, logging, error emails, and more.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 36 PRs, 59 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gerard primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `jobbyphp/jobby` repository, which is a cron job management tool. Their commits focused on refactoring, bug fixes, and enhancements to core components, including the `BackgroundJob` class. They replaced the existing cron parser and implemented features related to handling job execution and logging. The user also worked on improving the reliability and robustness of the job management system, including exception handling and Windows support.
golangcron-jobsphpemailslogging
Differential/meteor-boilerplate
Nov 2013 - Feb 2015
Boilerplate meteor app - starting point for meteor apps
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Gerard contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the Meteor boilerplate application. They implemented a default loading template and modified the routing configuration. The user also added a user profile page, along with updates to routes and account configurations. Furthermore, they refactored the project's stylesheets and authorization rules, suggesting familiarity with various project components.
meteorboilerplatemeteor-appsstarting-pointpoint
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