Michael Gerlek

Current

Charter Member at OSGeo
Director of Engineering at LizardTech

Past

Compiler Engineer at Tera
Compiler Engineer at Intel
Intern / Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Education

Oregon Graduate Institute
Merrimack College

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Industry

Computer Software

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Michael Gerlek’s Summary

Currently employed as the manager of the engineering team at LizardTech working on next-generation systems for managing massive (GB+) datasets in the Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) market -- relevant buzzwords include image compression, wavelets, MrSID, MG2/MG3, JPEG 2000, NITF, streaming, progressive transmission, raster imaging, open source, geospatial technology, ad inf.

My work at LizardTech has included state-of-the-art image compression R&D; image/raster SDK design, development, and maintenance; technical evangelism and standards groups stuff; and much more along these lines.

(Prior to LizardTech, I was a compiler jock working on back-end and middle-end optimizations for high performance systems: 4 years of graduate work in compiler design, followed by stints at both Tera's and Intel's compiler teams.)

I have side interests in automated build and test systems, the dynamics of small software teams, and high performance computing.

I am also a Charter Member of OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

Full resume available on request.

Michael Gerlek’s Specialties:

imaging, image processing, image compression, open source, technical management

Michael Gerlek’s Experience

Charter Member

OSGeo

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Director of Engineering

LizardTech

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 1999 — Present (10 years )
Compiler Engineer

Tera

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CRAY; Computer Hardware industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Compiler Engineer

Intel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Hardware industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )
Intern / Research Assistant

Los Alamos National Laboratory

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

1989 — 1991 (2 years )