Jerry Kuch
Instructor at Pivotal Software
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Kuch is an experienced software engineer and instructor with 14+ years building distributed systems, messaging platforms, and language/runtime tooling from research to production. He has deep expertise in RabbitMQ, Erlang, Java, Scala and the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem, and has driven core messaging infrastructure at VMware/Pivotal while also designing JVM-based language runtimes earlier in his career. At the University of Washington he designs and teaches advanced courses on reactive, concurrent and data engineering topics, blending practical system design with functional-programming principles. Comfortable moving between low-level algorithms and large-scale data platforms, he’s known for shipping robust, production-grade infrastructure and for translating research-grade ideas into teachable, applied curricula.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at McGill UniversityPhysics, Physics at Reed CollegeM.Math, Computer Science, M.Math, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (59)
server-core10
stomp10
messaging10
amqp10
message-queue10
rabbitmq10
message-broker10
rabbitmq-client10
artemis10
streaming10
pytorch9
python9
mqtt9
setsid9
deep-learning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jerrykuch/syllabi
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Syllabi for Various Things I've Taught At Some Point
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
jerrykuch/ersatz-setsid
Jan 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
mac-ospoorlinuxmacsetsid
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