Rusty Gerard
Software Engineering Manager at Synack
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRusty Gerard is a Software Engineering Manager in Seattle with 11 years of experience building production ML, computer vision, and cloud-native systems across startups and enterprise. He has led AI and engineering teams to deliver high-throughput document review and PTaaS innovations, architecting end-to-end ML pipelines, model governance, and real-time inference that materially reduced human review and sped project timelines. Rusty combines deep hands-on expertise in CV algorithms and scalable cloud architectures with a knack for operationalizing research into reliable products, from conveyor-belt vision prototypes to automated document pipelines processing tens of thousands of documents per day. He has driven platform reliability and deployment best practices at companies from Disney to Vulcan, introducing containerization, CI/CD, and measurable KPIs. An inventor on multiple patents and a former early engineer at a stealth startup, he brings both rapid prototyping agility and long-term roadmap discipline. Known for translating ambiguous research into customer-facing solutions, he excels at bridging ML research, engineering execution, and business impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of WashingtonMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (133)
console-log10
jenkins-plugin10
logstash10
logging10
rest9
api9
jersey9
dropwizard9
jetty9
jax-rs9
jenkins9
console9
java9
hibernate9
expression-language8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
R-Gerard/nes-tech-demo
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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