# Alan Gerber > AI Platform Engineer Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alangerber ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States AI Platform / ML Observability - Full-stack implementation of a secure GenAI observability system, including a high-throughput backend store built on Golang, Cassandra, and Kafka/Flink; as well as integral OpenTelemetry collection in internal Python MCP libraries - Development of a Kubernetes controller reconciling cluster-external resources as an initial component of an ML Platform Control Plane - Full-stack support and extension of experiment-tracking and hyperparameter-tuning services as components of an ML platform ### Participant @ Recurse Center Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Attended a self-guided educational retreat for programmers, with focus areas including: • deep learning and basic fine-tuning of AI models via the Fast.AI course, supported by web scraping via Jupyter to assemble a custom dataset and Python package management to execute models locally on M1 Macs via the Metal Performance Shaders framework • the Rust programming language • Reading Designing Data Intensive Applications with a discussion group ### Senior Software Engineer @ Frame AI Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States • Refactored core AI-driven metrics computation functionality from Pandas PoC to complex Postgres query-generation to ”bring computation to the data” • Refactored complex interlocked NLP-powered enrichment service chain to single ”enrichment service” to precache metrics for 1000x speedup for users • Built extensible downstream score sync service to support mulitple API destinations • Updated in-house Python ML dependency management to run locally on ARM64 M1 Macs • Simple full-stack React work to support full-stack feature implementation and Typescript migration ### Software Engineer @ Invitae Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York • Migrating and building functionality from a Django monolith hosted on Rancher to scalable Scala & Kotlin microservices hosted on Kubernetes • Piloting implementation of Scala and Kotlin Kafka event-driven microservices • Serving in developer on-call rotation to resolve production incidents • Picking up React/Redux and extending Django to deliver high-priority projects ### Senior Platform Engineer @ TodayTix Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York • Built and extended features and ticket-provider API integrations for a leading theater ticket app's backend RESTful API and internal line-of-business applications • Architected and began extraction of monolithic Groovy/Grails services to Go/ Kubernetes microservices • Rapidly architected, implemented, loadtested, and launched new features enabling TodayTix to land lottery deal for 2018's biggest show, Harry Potter • Systematically investigated usage of and deprecated V1 API components in order to eliminate vast quantities of legacy code and enable faster bugfixes and implementation of new features • Maintained and modernized Ansible deployment tooling ### Senior Software Engineer @ Knewton Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York • Built and executed API load tests simulating thousands of simultaneous complex student interactions • Debugged Kafka serivces under load, enabling Knewton API platform scaling from 0 to hundreds of thousands of users Built recomendation and analytics services integration test suites and Docker/Jenkins test execution platform • Updated and monitored Mesos Worker Roller service to seamlessly replace Mesos workers executing production services • Gained experience with tools including Python, Ruby, Docker, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFormation), and Jenkins ### Software Engineer @ Etsy Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Brooklyn, New York -Built Auto-pay feature automating seller billing, the site's primary revenue stream, via PHP cronjob -Rebuilt & modernized seller signup pipeline to maintain seller growth -Learned PHP webapp development using MVC design pattern on top of ActiveRecord ORM -Gained working knowledge of JavaScript, memcache, Apache, PHP & JavaScript debuggers, xhprof, continuous deployment via Deployinator/Jenkins ### Engineer @ Qualcomm Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 As a member of the Android Power team, I lead the optimization and maintenance of power performance for Android Gingerbread and Froyo on the 8260CSFB dual-core LTE chipset on. This chip was used in the HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, AT&T's first LTE phones, about which Engadget said, "the Vivid does have excellent standby power management," and "we tested the [Skyrocket's] battery on both LTE and HSPA+ and came away happy in each instance". ### BodyTrack Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 I developed an Android application to track and upload data available to an Android smartphone (location, pictures/descriptions of meals & barcodes of food products) as a part of the BodyTrack project, which aims to track bodily inputs so that a user might better understand how their food and environment corresponds to how they feel. ### Competition Programming Course Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ### Software Development Intern @ The Open Planning Project Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 I worked on GeoServer. You can check it out at geoserver.org. ### Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Cylab Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 ### Software Development Intern @ BitArmor Systems, Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 I learned and worked with two new programming languages, C++ and C#, as well as the Windows API. Using these languages, I implemented a thread-tolerant debugging trace infrastructure to be used to monitor production security software ### 15-123 Introduction to C and Unix Course Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Department of Computer Science Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 ### Software Development Intern @ Quad/Graphics Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 I worked with a team to develop a new module for RAPTOR, a piece of logistics software, using PowerBuilder for the user interface and SQL with Sybase Adaptive Server for data storage. It was put in production by summer’s end. ## Education ### BS in Majors: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy; Minor: Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akgerber - Portfolio: http://www.alangerber.us - GitHub: http://github.com/akgerber/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/alangerber JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alangerber/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31