Adam In Tae Gerard

About Me

Senior Software Engineer
9+ years of software development experience
4+ years in Finance, Payments, eCommerce, Credit Cards, Fintech, and Banking
Java, Java Spring, SQL, JavaScript, React
Going back to graduate school for a second masters in Computer Science part-time
Adopted South Korean American
Lived in Seattle, Downtown Chicago, and San Francisco
Enjoys games, philosophy, logic, computers, and math
Avid boardgamer, trading card collector, and plant guy
Proud Vegetarian

Fun Stats

Honor percentile: Top 1.562% - Codewars - Leaderboard position: #9,669
8 badges earned - LinkedIn - Must be top 30% of test-takers to earn
Rank 69,674 / 5,059,951 - HackerRank - Practice Score 1456.56
Rank 82,107 - LeetCode - Easy problems solved beats 99.4%, medium problems solved beats 94.9%
X9 average user - CodesSignal - Job screen score of 528 (New Scale) at the top ~15% of test-takers
Rank 351,013 / 22,026,764 - StackOverflow - 716 reputation
68 problems originally solved - Project Euler - Top 3.041%

Work History

(2023-2024) Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
(2020-2022) Intermediate Software Engineer at Fortune 500, Public, and Top VC-Backed Companies
(2018-2020) Developer Relations (Software Engineering Technical Writer)
(2016-2018) Freelance Software Developer
(2014-2016) Junior Software Developer
(2012-2013) Nonprofit Work in Academia

Senior Software Engineer - Capital One (through Hired.com) (2023-02 to 2024-04)
- Richmond, VA - Full Time, Remote
- Java, React, Spring, Snowflake, Splunk, Python, AWS
- Serverless stack migration, features for top credit card, financial security and compliance
- Card Tech Team Hackathon Winner, top 5 shoutouts from Payments org Q3 and Q4 2023, $M’s saved for customers/company, enterprise-wide platform tooling
- Performance bonuses
- Departed/Departing
Software Engineer II - TrueCar (through Hired.com) (2022-09-07 to 2022-09-15)
- Los Angeles, CA - Full Time, Remote
- Ruby, React.js, Rails
- Ultimately declined their offer of employment
- Immediate voluntary departure for better company fit
Technical Writer III - Aquent (at Microsoft Research AI Content and Strategy) (2022-06 to 2022-08-15)
- Redmond, WA - Contract, Remote
- .NET, Machine Learning, Documentation Tooling, JavaScript, Node.js, Markdown, Azure
- Documentation, document tooling
- Completed requirements early
- Contract extended through end of year
- Voluntary departure
Software Engineer III - Dosh (acquired by Cardlytics) (2022-01 to 2022-06)
- Austin, TX - Full Time, Remote
- Serverless, AWS, Lambda, React, TypeScript, BitBucket
- Internal tooling, compliance, legacy migration
- Bug fixes, public REST API, $M’s in customer offers enabled
- Voluntary departure
Software Engineer - AT&T (2021-10 to 2021-11)
- Austin, TX - Full Time, Remote
- Java, Java EE, SQL, JSP, Azure
- Immediate voluntary departure for better company fit
Developer Relations II - GoTeleport (Gravitational, Y-Combinator) (2021-04 to 2021-07)
- Oakland, CA - Full Time, Remote
- GoLang, Markdown, Git, SSH
- Documentation, code samples, testing
- Helped to significantly improve traffic and customer satisfaction, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Voluntary departure
Software Engineer II - Amount (through Hired.com) (2020-06 to 2021-03)
- Chicago, IL - Full Time, Remote
- Ruby, Rails, RSpec, PostGres, AWS, GitHub, GraphQL, Python
- Backend, data quality, loan servicing
- Work helped to bring in new Wall Street bank, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Performance bonuses
- Voluntary departure
Software Developer - Self-Employed (Contract, Freelance) (2015-09 to 2020-07)
- Many Locations - Many role types: Contract, Part Time, Remote
- Java, Java Spring, React.js, Node.js, Python, Django, SQL
- Backend, frontend, bug bounties, consulting
- Baeldung, Kleros.io, X-Team, Shoppe, Thinkful, etc.
- Many: Contracts completed, voluntary departures, etc.
Programmer Writer III - Aquent (at Microsoft Azure IoT) (2018-08 to 2020-02-28)
- Redmond, WA - Contract, Remote
- .NET, Documentation, JavaScript, Node.js, REST APIs, Azure, Markdown
- Documentation, testing, SDK's, code samples
- Both Azure Digital Twins and Azure Time Series Insights went from Preview to General Availability
- Contract extended to the maximum 18 months
- Contract completed
Software Engineer - D3 Banking (2015-12 to 2016-01)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, Java Spring, ActionScript, AWS, MSSQL, GitHub, Ant
- Invited back
- Voluntary departure
Software Developer - Proxibid (eBay Live Auction Partner) (2015-04 to 2015-08)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, Java Spring, Backbone.JS, Rackspace, MSSQL, Subversion
- Point on eBay integration, high use API for customers, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Voluntary departure
Software Engineer - D3 Banking (2015-01 to 2015-04)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, ActionScript, AWS, MSSQL, Subversion, Ant
- Scaled to ~200+ Banks, ~200K+ users, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Promoted
- Voluntary departure
Junior Java Developer - D3 Banking (through Modis) (2014-07 to 2015-01)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, ActionScript, AWS, MSSQL, Subversion, Ant
- Scaled to 97+ Banks, 100K+ users
- Promoted, converted
Graduate Assistant - Northern Illinois University (Graduate Assistant to the Chair of the AHCD) (2012-08 to 2013-05)
- DeKalb, IL - Part Time, Onsite, Student
- Center for the Deaf Blind administrative duties, Graduate Assistant, Federal grant compliance
- Helen Keller National Center Liaison, selected university-wide for the role
- Maximum weekly hours allowed
- Completed education

Education

Iowa State University - English Literature - B.A. (2003 to 2009)
Northern Illinois University - Philosophy - M.A. (2010 to 2014)

Skill-Based Assessments

(2024-03-05) HackerRank - Software Engineer Certificate
(2023-05-29) Amazon - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
(2022-12-30) CodeSignal - Capital One Technical Screen - Score of 528 (New Scale) at the top ~15% of test-takers
(2022-12-22) CodeSignal - Practice Coding Assessment - Score of 775 at the top ~15% of test-takers
(2022-12) Triplebyte - Full-Stack Architecture - Top 20-40% of test-takers
(2022-02-22) Amazon - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
(2021-10-14) Microsoft - Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
(2021-07-27) 6nomads - 6nomads Java Developer Hiring Test - Required for acceptance onto 6nomads
(2021-04-18) Coursera - Front-End Web UI Frameworks and Tools: Bootstrap 4
(2021-04-11) Coursera - Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software
(2021-03-12) Coursera - Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
(2021-03-11) HackerRank - Rest API (Intermediate) Certificate
(2021-03) Angel.co - Front-End Web Assessment - Top 10-20% of test-takers
(2020-10) LinkedIn - Java assessment - Top 15% of 2.7M people who took this
(2020-10) LinkedIn - Java Spring assessment - Top 15% of 2.7M people who took this
(2020-08-11) Coursera - Structuring Machine Learning Projects
(2020-08-08) Coursera - Programming with Google Go - Specialization
(2020-08-08) Coursera - Concurrency in Go
(2020-07-15) Coursera - Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
(2020-07-05) Coursera - Functions, Methods, and Interfaces in Go
(2020-06-22) Coursera - Foundations of Objective-C App Development
(2020-06-19) Coursera - Neural Networks and Deep Learning
(2020-06-16) Coursera - Getting Started with Go
(2020-06-10) Coursera - Python for Everybody - Specialization
(2020-06-10) Coursera - Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python
(2020-06-06) Coursera - Using Databases with Python
(2020-06) LinkedIn - Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) assessment - Top 30% of 1.1M people who took this
(2020-06) Hired.com - Backend - Top 7.7% of test-takers
(2020-05-29) Coursera - Using Python to Access Web Data
(2020-05-28) Coursera - Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals - Specialization
(2020-05-23) Coursera - Ordered Data Structures
(2020-05-21) HackerRank - Python (Basic) Certificate
(2020-05-19) Coursera - Python Data Structures
(2020-05-16) Coursera - Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++
(2020-05-14) Coursera - Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
(2020-05-07) CodeSignal - Practice Coding Assessment - Score of 775 at the top ~15% of test-takers
(2020-05) LinkedIn - JavaScript assessment - Top 15% of 2.3M people who took this
(2020-05) LinkedIn - React assessment - Top 30% of 822.7k people who took this
(2020-05) LinkedIn - JSON assessment - Top 30% of 493.8k people who took this
(2020-05) LinkedIn - Python (Programming Language) assessment - Top 30% of 4.0M people who took this
(2020-05) LinkedIn - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) assessment - Top 5% of 1.8M people who took this
(2020-03-28) Coursera - Unordered Data Structures
(2020-03-01) HackerRank - Java (Basic) Certificate
(2020-03) Hired.com - Full Stack - Top 5.4% of test-takers
(2020-03) Hired.com - Frontend - Top 8.5% of test-takers
(2020-02-09) HackerRank - Problem Solving (Basic) Certificate
(2020-02) Hired.com - Programming Skills - Top 0% of test-takers

Professional and Academic References

References available upon request.

Selected Awards, Memberships, and Honors

American Philosophical Association Member (2019 to 2021)
Will C. Jumper Poetry Scholarship (2009)
Upwardly Global Volunteer (2018 to 2021)
National Forensics League (National Speech & Debate Association) Iowa State Debate Champion (2003)
National Forensics League (National Speech & Debate Association) Nationals Debate Semi-Finalist (2003)

Selected Portfolio Items

Azure Digital Twins Documentation - Markdown, Azure, IoT
Quantum Computation - Python, Quantum Computing, Angular
Procedural Generation - Procedural Generation, Games
From CMS to WAF - WordPress, React, JavaScript
Gravitational Documentation - GoLang, React, JavaScript
Reactive Support: WebSession - Java, Reactive Spring Boot
Spring Dispatcher Servlet - Java, Spring

Selected Open Source Contributions

LeetCode - Test constraints
Microsoft - Work history
Microsoft - C# MSAL
Baeldung - Work history
Netlify - Html minifier
Exercism - UI improvements
GoTeleport (Gravitational) - Work history
X-Team - Open source blog
Project Euler - Original solutions

Relevant Links

Blog - https://www.thoughtscript.io/
CodeWars - https://www.codewars.com/users/Thoughtscript
Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/user/16293d668e9feccdd20df40f3bf2031e
Credly - https://www.credly.com/users/adam-gerard/badges
GitHub - https://github.com/Thoughtscript
HackerRank - https://www.hackerrank.com/KardashevScale?hr_r=1
Hired.com - https://hired.com/blog/candidates/tech-candidate-spotlight-adam-gerard-senior-software-engineer/
LeetCode - https://leetcode.com/Thoughtscript/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamintaegerard/
Project Euler - https://projecteuler.net/profile/Thoughtscript.png
Stack Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/users/4955304/adam-gerard
Triplebyte - https://triplebyte.com/tb/adam-in-tae-gerard-xt65gg8

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