Gunnar Holwerda
Co-Founder, CTO at EM1
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGunnar Holwerda is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams, now serving as Co-Founder and CTO of EM1 in Oregon. He has repeatedly moved teams from legacy ops to modern cloud-native stacks—leading migrations to Docker/ECS and Kubernetes—and scaled engineering groups from single-digit teams to 30+ engineers through hiring, reorganization, and leadership development. Known for combining hands-on development (Node/TypeScript, Postgres, Vue) with strong operational discipline, he has driven measurable outcomes like 10x marketing throughput increases and revenue-preserving customer integrations. Gunnar also has a knack for practical process improvements—onboarding programs, career ladders, and pairing practices—that boosted productivity and reduced outages. He returned to contract engineering roles when pursuing his own ventures, demonstrating a balance of entrepreneurship and customer-focused engineering delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Montana State University-BozemanHigh School, High School at Lake Oswego Senior High School
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Github Skills (106)
embedding10
llama-index10
template-strings10
chatbot10
agent10
mocking10
nodejs10
javascript9
keen-io9
testing9
ioredis9
google-maps9
stub9
llm9
openai9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GunnarHolwerda/bracket_gen
Jun 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:8 pushes in 5 years 1 month
GunnarHolwerda/PiWallGuiController
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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