Gerardo Riano
Chief Technology Officer at Simulacrum
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGerardo Riano is a technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building AI-driven, cloud-secure systems and complex system models. He currently leads Simulacrum after a Runway Startup Founder stint at Cornell Tech, where he helped bridge academic research and startup innovation. His background spans research-grade algorithm development for large-scale water systems and hands-on product work at Microsoft improving Azure Key Vault governance and secrets lifecycle. Gerardo blends deep academic training—a PhD from UT Austin and dual engineering degrees from Universidad de los Andes—with applied engineering that produced open-source tools used worldwide. He has a track record of moving high-performance distributed algorithms into production settings and influencing public-sector tech standards across Latin America. Based in the New York City area, he combines rigorous research instincts with pragmatic security and cloud governance experience to ship auditable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Texas at AustinUniversidad de los Andes
English
Github Skills (28)
microsoft10
conda10
forge10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
conda-forge9
atmosphere9
storm9
water9
aem9
simulate8
ord7
simulation7
fortran7
modeling6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gandresr/MatSWMM
Jan 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 9 months
gandresr/FLibSWMM
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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