Timothy Gerstel
Software Engineer II at Rocket Software
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Gerstel is a software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack systems for IBM z/OS mainframe environments at Rocket Software. He contributes to and maintains open-source server projects like Zowe/ZSS, working across Node.js, TypeScript, Angular, React, C, Java, and Python to deliver REST APIs, microservices, and administrative tooling. Comfortable in Agile teams, he designs and implements server-side components in both Node.js and C, and automates testing and CI/CD workflows using Selenium, Jenkins, and unit testing. His background includes creating reverse-proxy solutions and Swagger integrations to bridge external APIs with Node.js-hosted mainframe apps, showing a practical knack for legacy-to-modern interoperability. Based in Massachusetts, he blends systems-level thinking with front-end polish, often tackling the glue code that makes enterprise services consumable and testable.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (70)
low-level10
proxy-server10
http-request9
proxy9
packaging9
api8
browser8
linux8
javascript8
uss8
react8
mainframe8
networking8
nodejs8
netflix8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
timgerstel/zlux-editor
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
A simple editor in a browser
Contributions:1 review, 35 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 10 months
reactbrowserjavascriptsimple-editoreditor
timgerstel/sample-react-app
Jul 2019 - Jul 2023
Sample to showcase a react app that natively can be presented into the Zowe desktop
Contributions:4 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years
reactreact-nativezowedesktopshowcase
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