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Jerry Gu

Bellevue,WA

Summary

Amiable software developer turned manager with 20 years of industry experience in software development, 6 years of experiences leading creation of exemplary products by fostering enthusiastic and cohesive teams. Practiced at inspiring efforts that exceed corporate guidelines. Maintains strict adherence to prescribed development milestones and quality assurance levels. Expert at leveraging diverse teams to produce revolutionary and successful products.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineering Manager

Meta
Seattle, WA
05.2022 - Current
  • Led cross-functional teams (15+ engineers) to deliver high-performance, low-latency Computer Vision capabilities in Kernel and High-level OS for the successful launch of Meta Quest 3, 3s and next Gen VR devices.
  • Drove org-level initiatives to reduce the OS level crashes across all org (50+ engineers), achieved 0.01% crash-rate over Daily-Active-Users.
  • Formed a collaborative culture of continuous learning and ownership among the team. Guide through multiple rounds of company-wide re-org and down-scaling with a high retention of high performers.
  • Drove AI Coding Agent initiatives to team, encouraging, tracking and unblocking team's adoption to 100% AI-native development.
  • Experienced at identifying, coaching and exiting non-regrettable attrittions.

Software Development Manager

Amazon
Seattle, WA
04.2019 - 05.2022
  • Led a team of 13 full-stack software development engineers in development and operation of new customer facing initiatives, based on Machine Learning and Computer Vision technologies, to provide customers of Amazon Fashion an experience to get daily outfit recommendations and inspirations with garments both in their closet and available at Amazon, as well as envisioning themselves in various outfits through virtual try-on technology.
  • Led a team of 5 software development engineers in building the Advertising Campaign Management system for Amazon App Store, which enabled Amazon Advertising customers to easily create, manage, monitor and pay for their campaigns.
  • Collaborated with senior leadership and product management team to define product vision and requirements, and executed project plans coordinating with partner teams to achieve organizational goals.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon
Seattle, WA
09.2014 - 04.2019
  • Led the design and development of Amazon "Moments" Project, an innovative marketing tool for Amazon App Developers to promote their products to their targeted end users efficiently through physical goods reward fulfilled by Amazon.
  • Led the architecture, design and implementation of Amazon Solid State Drive (SSD) Firmware, a distributed low latency high throughput storage system that replaced the embedded SSD for AWS Elastic Block Service (EBS).
  • Designed and implemented the secure bootloader and multimedia driver for Amazon FireTV and FirePhone.

Software Developer

BlackBerry Limited
Ottawa, Ontario
05.2010 - 08.2014

Integrated, implemented and maintained hardware drivers in QNX Neutrino OS on Blackberry smart phones, including display, graphics, touch screen, and Near Field Communication (NFC) modules. Provided software support during smart phone manufacturing process. Trouble-shot and analyzed in-field smart phone defects to resolve intermittent misbehaviors and improve user experiences.

Software Developer

March Networks
Ottawa, Ontario
08.2005 - 04.2010

Responsible for developing various March Networks' transportation video surveillance products in both embedded application and server side management application. Responsible for the overall integration of the Linux based embedded video recording system, which consists of the hardware, firmware, Linux Operating System, drivers, core software and user applications.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Technology

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
08-2005

Skills

  • Full-stack Web Application and Infrastructure Development
  • Embedded Real-time System Software Development
  • Project Planning and Management
  • Operational Excellence Best Practices
  • Product Development and Visioning
  • Building & Managing Engineering Teams of Talents

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager

Meta
05.2022 - Current

Software Development Manager

Amazon
04.2019 - 05.2022

Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon
09.2014 - 04.2019

Software Developer

BlackBerry Limited
05.2010 - 08.2014

Software Developer

March Networks
08.2005 - 04.2010

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Technology

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jerry Gu
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