Gerhard Gross
Software Engineer
Experienced software developer and team development lead/contributor with a real world understanding of the complete software life-cycle including: analysis, architecture, planning, design, development, continuous integration, testing/validation, deployment and maintenance.
Technical Skills
C++, C#, Java, C, Python, scripting, Windows, Linux, AWS, Jenkins, TeamCity, Visual Studio, CI/CD, DevOps, EC2, .NET, Agile, Scrum, SOLID, Boost, OOP, REST, Eclipse, TCP/IP, Google protobuf, etc.
Personal Projects
Created an AWS cloud computing platform using an EC2 container for data mining and processing. Event driven content transfer to AWS S3 data store using Amazon S3 API.
Professional Experience
INTEL CORPORATION, Hillsboro, OR 2012 - present
Sr. Cloud/Software Engineer
Working in a CI/CD and DevOps environment, responsible for new feature development of CPU simulation software products - Python, scripts, C++. Develop/troubleshoot/fix/update CI/CD Jenkins automation system for new products and test suites.
Lead the development and deployment of a detailed software validation process and trained a team of engineers to use the process. Feature development of full stack software product – C#, MS Teams, C, scripting, Visual Studio, doxygen, Jenkins, TeamCity, Google protobuf and grpc.
Designed and developed active network analysis software components of a network traffic engineering system to measure available bandwidth, path latency and jitter using C++, g++, Visual Studio, Perl, shell scripting. Resulted in 5 patent publications.
Redesigned extensive public API of automation software for better efficiency, robustness and user friendliness using Visual Studio C#, C/C++, mercurial.
OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGIES, Portland, OR (Boeing contractor) 2005-2012
Senior Software Architect/Engineer
Lead the design and development of an ACARS (ARINC 429/619 Williamsburg) highly multi-threaded communication protocol implementation used in most airlines today: Java, C#.
Lead software design for first prototype of an electric vehicle charging station including all software layers using Java, JavaScript, REST, AJAX, C#, MySQL, HTML5, WPF.
Designed and developed a discovery and self-recovering communication and data dispersal protocol for deployment of EV mesh charging station clusters using Java, C#, TCP/IP.
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Portland, OR
Ph.D. Dissertation
Architected and developed a software solution to augment a sophisticated climate computer model with a comprehensive atmospheric chemistry computer model - C/C++, FORTRAN, Unix and Perl scripting.
Academic Background
Ph.D., Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR (summa cum laude - 4.0 GPA)
M.S., Physics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
B.S., Physics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA