Gustave Gerhardt
Principal Software Engineer at The New York Times
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolGustave Gerhardt is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing performant event-driven APIs and highly scalable microservices, currently contributing at The New York Times and as Principal Engineer for The Wirecutter. He combines deep architectural judgment with a track record of archetyping database-dependent services that balance throughput, reliability, and operational simplicity. Known for pragmatic leadership, he mentors teams to ship resilient systems at scale while keeping technical debt in check. Based in the Greater Chicago area, he brings an atypical background—a BA in Printmaking—into engineering, which informs a strong attention to craft and thoughtful system design. Colleagues rely on him for clear decisions on distributed systems trade-offs and for turning complex requirements into practical, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Printmaking, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Printmaking at Eastern Illinois University
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Github Skills (70)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GhostToast/lightwall
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Experimental code for bluetooth-controlled light wall using NeoPixels/NeoMatrix
Contributions:3 reviews, 104 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 6 months
wallcontrolledneomatrixlightbluetooth
GhostToast/python-lightwall-server
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
Python3 server to communicate to lightwall
Contributions:12 PRs, 32 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 9 months
pythoncommunicatejavascriptfiddlerpython3
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