Gerry Power
Principal Software Engineer at Instapro Group
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGerry Power is a Principal Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with 12 years of focused experience leading engineering teams and shaping product architecture across startups and growth-stage companies. He has held CTO roles and principal engineering positions at multiple firms, guiding technology strategy from hands-on system design to high-availability grid publishing implementations. Gerry combines technical leadership with business acumen—co-authoring a three-year growth plan that helped scale a Canadian firm from $10M to $73M in revenue and expanding its North American footprint. He’s adept at securing R&D funding, having written successful proposals that yielded over $7M via federal tax credit programs, and runs a consulting practice that married technology delivery with funding strategy. Known for bridging hardware and software domains, Gerry has deep experience in data capture systems and practical innovations like "key from image" approaches that enabled large-scale survey processing. His profile reflects a blend of product-focused engineering, strategic planning, and an uncommon knack for turning technical research into measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Acadia University
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Github Skills (97)
command-line-tool10
cli10
aws-lambda10
binaries10
homebrew10
administration10
lambda9
api9
swagger-ui9
serverless-applications9
sequelizejs9
whenever9
azure-functions9
openapi9
serverless9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
homestars/que-web
Apr 2020 - Mar 2024
A web interface for the Que queue
Contributions:6 releases, 10 reviews, 15 PRs in 3 years 11 months
pythonweb-interfacedjangoque
homestars/que
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
A Ruby job queue that uses PostgreSQL's advisory locks for speed and reliability.
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
locksspeedadvisory-locksrailsruby
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