Gerhard Pretorius
Senior Software Developer at Cerence AI
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGerhard Pretorius is a seasoned Senior Software Developer based in Toronto with a decade of experience building production-grade systems across telecommunications, real-time traffic control, and AI/ML-enabled platforms. He has a strong systems and C++ background—modernizing a real-time traffic control stack and adapting TensorFlow via clang/LLVM and Boost Graph Library to support experimental hardware simulation. His recent roles span Huawei, Magic Leap, IBM, and now Cerence AI, reflecting a pattern of tackling low-level integration, DSL translation, and performance-sensitive engineering. Comfortable across C, C++, Java and scripting for test automation, he combines deep implementation skills with practical product delivery. Notably, his work often sits at the intersection of compiler toolchains and applied signal/ML systems, bringing signal-processing roots to complex software problems.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Signal Processing, Bachelor of Engineering Signal Processing at University of Pretoria
Github Skills (18)
spiffs9
nodemcu9
esp328
lua8
espressif8
firmware8
esp82668
platformio4
hardware4
iot3
embedded3
fpga3
workbench3
vscode3
microcontroller2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
marcelstoer/nodemcu-custom-build
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
Contributions:6 comments, 1 issue in 1 day
luaspiffsesp8285firmwareesp8266
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