Gerry Agbobada is a Rust backend engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems across crypto, observability, and developer tooling. Currently at Tsuga after co-creating and maintaining the Go version of Autometrics at Fiberplane, he blends systems-level Rust work with pragmatic Go libraries and release management. His background includes hands-on Ledger integrations for Cosmos and Stargate, designing auditable gateways and wallet services, and leading backend architecture and mentoring at Sun Zu Lab. An active open-source contributor, Gerry has improved GUIs for Neovim, contributed to Doom Emacs themes and tooling, and enjoys text editors and Scheme—hinting at a taste for elegant developer ergonomics. His training spans École Polytechnique and Arts et Métiers, pairing rigorous mechanics/materials foundations with applied computer science.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Open Source Society University
Master's degree Major in Mechanics, Master's degree Major in Mechanics at École Polytechnique
Master's degree Material Science, Master's degree Material Science at Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
Contributions:13 reviews, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Gerry primarily contributed to the development of Emacs themes within the Doom Emacs ecosystem. Their work involved adding new themes, refactoring existing theme code, and enhancing the visual appearance through color adjustments and face customizations. Furthermore, the user focused on improving the testing framework by adding descriptions and fixing macro-related issues. Additionally, the user added faces and modified the modeline.
An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:38 reviews, 94 commits, 72 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gerry made various contributions to the Doom Emacs framework, focusing on enhancing the user interface and configuration aspects. They implemented pretty-code configurations, including the addition of Hasklig and Iosevka ligatures, and integrated flycheck-golangci-lint for improved code quality. Furthermore, the user addressed code-related issues, such as fixing DAP-debug configurations, implementing changes to add cython-specific packages, and modifying documentation, all of which showcase their ability to contribute to the Emacs ecosystem.
vimemacs-configurationmartianemacsemacs-lsp
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.