Perry Hertler
Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolPerry Hertler is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable, API-driven systems for payroll, benefits, and ad-tech platforms. At Gusto he launched self-service webhooks, introduced date-based API versioning, and built Rust CLIs to manage and test integrations, while hardening API authorization. Previously he led migrations from monolithic Rails apps to event-driven microservices at G5 and architected a service-oriented life insurance platform as an independent consultant. Based in Brookfield, WI, he blends deep backend engineering and architecture with practical developer tooling, and often chooses niche systems languages like Rust to solve operational pain points.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (95)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
perryqh/packs
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
A pure Rust implementation of packwerk, a gradual modularization tool for Ruby
Contributions:2 PRs, 277 pushes, 156 branches in 9 months
G5/g5_authentication_client
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
Client for the G5 authentication service
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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