Summary
Gerry Button is a seasoned release and systems engineering professional with 8+ years at Accenture and a 30+ year career building and supporting enterprise applications across mainframe, client-server and modern web/.NET stacks. Currently a Release Environment Management Senior Analyst for Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership, he designs release strategies, CI/CD pipelines and risk controls while coordinating complex multi-team deployments under regulatory constraints. He has deep hands-on experience with test automation and performance tooling (Silk Test, LoadRunner) and a track record of improving stability and reducing production defects through process and tooling improvements. Gerry combines legacy-mainframe fluency (COBOL, DB2, Tandem) with modern DevOps practices, making him effective at migrations and sustaining large-scale systems. Known for crisis management, root-cause analysis and mentoring, he repeatedly codified repeatable processes (portal release process, escalation workflows) that scaled across global teams. Based in Austin with an Honors BA in Economics/Computer Science from York University, he brings pragmatic engineering discipline and a knack for turning operational pain points into durable automation.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Honors BA, Economics/Computer Science, Honors BA, Economics/Computer Science at York University