Nick Gerner
Board Member at Invest in Youth
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Gerner is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 14 years building scalable distributed systems, product teams, and startups from founding to acquisition. He has led engineering and product at Placed through rapid growth and integration into Snap, where he translated large-scale location and analytics data into commercial products used by major brands. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he has deep experience in big data/ML pipelines, POI/geo systems, APIs and VOIP test automation, and has driven measurable revenue and profitability while scaling teams. As a founder of an AI-driven dev tools startup and a board member/volunteer in community organizations, he blends hands-on engineering curiosity with governance and fundraising experience. A Cornell MEng alumnus, he also has a research background in web crawling and indexing that underpins his pragmatic approach to solving technical-product problems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (63)
fasttext10
pygments10
topic-modeling10
syntax-highlighting10
arabic-nlp9
word2vec9
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
sentence-embeddings9
lda9
python9
corpus9
word-embeddings9
gyroscope9
gensim9
syntax-highlighter9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gerner/autodevstats
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Collecting stats about the software development process
Contributions:81 commits, 7 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year
software-development-processbustercollectingstats
gerner/environment
Jan 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:51 pushes in 9 years 7 months
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