Hunter Gerlach
Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Gerlach is a Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat with a decade of experience bridging entrepreneurship and enterprise engineering to deliver customer-focused products and modernization initiatives. He combines deep hands-on technical expertise—especially in application modernization, containers, DevOps, and high-availability systems—with an MBA in entrepreneurship to help startups and established firms turn ideas into scalable solutions. A repeat founder and former director of operations, he’s led cross-functional and remote teams, driven cost-saving DevOps transformations, and migrated legacy WebSphere stacks to modern JBoss/Red Hat platforms. Recognized locally as a startup influencer and winner of pitch and innovation awards, he brings both strategic product sense and street-level execution. Off the clock you’ll find him on the tennis court, a hint at his competitive focus and team-oriented leadership style.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of LouisvilleBiomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering at University of KentuckyB.S. Engineering Physics, B.S. Engineering Physics at Murray State University
Github Skills (62)
llama10
command-line-utility10
runner10
reactive9
java9
python9
cookiecutter9
jenkins8
cli8
maven8
buildpack8
cloud-native8
logstash8
elk8
jwt8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HunterGerlach/deep-thought
Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
A question-answering system that uses embeddings and a language model to find the most likely answer to a question, while also providing links to sources that support the answer.
Contributions:1 review, 26 PRs, 111 pushes in 5 months
HunterGerlach/www.huntergerlach.com
Jun 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:63 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
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