Michael Gerlek

Current

• Charter Member at OSGeo
• Engineering Manager 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

Recommended

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Connections

131 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

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 6 months)

• Engineering Manager

  LizardTech

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 1999 — Present (9 years 8 months)

• 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)

Michael Gerlek’s Education

• Oregon Graduate Institute

  MS , Computer Science , 1991 — 1995

• Merrimack College

  BS , Computer Science , 1986 — 1991

Additional Information

Michael Gerlek’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Michael Gerlek’s Interests:

GIS, geospatial industry, image compression, open source, high performance computing, jpeg 2000

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