Nick Gerner

Software Architect at SEOmoz.org

Greater Seattle Area

Current
  • Software Architect at SEOmoz.org
  • Software Architect at SEOmoz
Past
  • Director of Engineering & Co-Founder at Vsched
  • Software Development Engineer In Test at Microsoft Corporation
  • Research Assistant at Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
Education
  • Cornell University
  • Cornell University
Connections
58 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Nick Gerner’s Summary

Researcher and developer for web, database, distributed, and large-scale data processing systems. Engineer with experience in design, development, test on small and large scale systems including enterprise class and agile systems.

Experience in C/C++, PHP, Python, Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, SQL

Nick Gerner’s Specialties:

database design, algorithms, machine learning, distributed system architecture. Interests in designing and building systems to support advanced interfaces to information management, retrieval, display, and interaction.


Nick Gerner’s Experience

  • Software Architect

    SEOmoz.org

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    January 2008Present (1 year 7 months)

    Software architect, database designer, back-end data processing developer

  • Software Architect

    SEOmoz

    (Computer Software industry)

    2008Present (1 year)

  • Director of Engineering & Co-Founder

    Vsched

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2007February 2008 (6 months)

    Software development, user interface and web design, database management, requirements collection and analysis, project management

  • Software Development Engineer In Test

    Microsoft Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    August 2006September 2007 (1 year 2 months)

    Development and execution of test automation covering several voice over ip transport features.
    Leadership of test execution frameworks and tools used by Real Time Media team (20+ developers)

  • Research Assistant

    Cornell University, Department of Computer Science

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

    September 2002May 2006 (3 years 9 months)

    Research Assistant in the Cornell University, Department of Computer Science Databases Group. Worked on the COUGAR, HiLDA, and WebLibrary projects. Two publications in the proceedings of SIGMOD06 and WWW07. Plus many internal documents and software implementations.

    Acted as a TA in three databases classes: Introduction to Database Management Systems, Database Management Systems Practicum, and Enterprise Information Architecture.

  • Student Coordinator

    Cornell University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2001May 2005 (3 years 9 months)

    Supervised a team of student managers managing a team of over 70 student technical support staff. Designed and implemented a web-based system to manage staff records, communications, equipment, work schedules, and support appointments. Managed team of student developers to implement additional functionality.


Nick Gerner’s Education

  • Cornell University

    MEng , Computer Science , 20052006

    Activities and Societies:
    Database Research Group
  • Cornell University

    BS , Computer Science , 20012005


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Nick Gerner’s Interests:

new technology, web development, scalability, research, databases, extreme programming, usability research, reading novels, gourmet cooking, hiking

Nick Gerner’s Groups:

Big Red Incubator

Nick Gerner’s Honors:

LIFE Merit Scholarship for Undergraduate Research

BOOM Student Spotlight: a yearly award given to one outstanding student by the Cornell University Department of Computer Science


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