Gerry Pass
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolGerry Pass is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building user-friendly frontends and scalable cloud backends, currently contributing to GitHub Copilot UI and accessibility improvements. He blends deep JavaScript/TypeScript and Ruby expertise with frameworks like React, Next.js, Rails, and Node to deliver test-driven, maintainable systems. Gerry has a track record of impact at startups and scale-ups—he was the first engineer at a company that grew to a $500M valuation and led work that helped a company’s valuation jump from $1.5M to $12M. He’s driven product-focused engineering wins such as migrating legacy systems to Rails with 98% coverage, improving SEO and Lighthouse scores by up to 60%, and launching GenAI prototypes using LangChain and Pinecone. Comfortable wearing many hats, he pairs hands-on coding with cross-functional collaboration and mentoring to reduce operational dependencies and accelerate delivery. Based in Atlanta, he brings an aerospace/mechanical engineering academic background and a penchant for building pragmatic, production-ready features that also prioritize accessibility and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Dual Major: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, 3.70 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Dual Major: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, 3.70 GPA at West Virginia University
English
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Github Skills (127)
khan-academy10
renderer10
authentication9
nfc9
camera8
javascript8
devise8
native-module8
react-native-module8
wait8
npm8
testing-library8
android8
image-picker8
postgresql7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rgpass/middleofus
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Sweet app for finding the midpoint between people
Contributions:71 PRs, 176 pushes, 49 branches in 7 months
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rgpass/portfolio
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:46 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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