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ANDREW GERHOLD

★ TECH LEAD • ARCHITECT • MENTOR ★

LEADERSHIP

ENGINEERING

ARCHITECTURE

AI/ML

♦ SPECIAL ABILITIES ♦

🎯 Scale Systems

🧠 Mentor Teams

⚡ Ship Fast

💰 Save $$$$

═══ PLAYER STATS ═══

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15+

YEARS ACTIVE

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440M

API REQUESTS/MO

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$5M+

SAVINGS UNLOCKED

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8M+

USERS SERVED

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99.98%

API SUCCESS RATE

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45+

TECH TALKS

▼ PLAYER BIO ▼

Dynamic technical leader who has focused on building and delivering all aspects of web applications and their supporting systems for the last 15 years. Extensive experience in leading high-impact engineering projects and fostering team growth.

Skilled in steering complex automation platforms, enhancing system reliability, and driving cross-functional collaborations. Excels in mentoring teams, optimizing operational processes, and contributing to strategic decision-making.

═══ QUEST LOG ═══

▶ EPIC QUEST: Sr. Staff Engineer LVL 99

📍 NBCUniversal • Oct 2024 - Present

+500 XP 🏆 Guild Master

✓ Established engineering guilds (architecture + automation)
✓ Launched mentorship & technical enablement programs
✓ Defined Developer Experience strategy
✓ Led hiring pipeline for senior/staff engineers

LEADERSHIP STRATEGY MENTORSHIP

▶ LEGENDARY QUEST: Principal II Engineer LVL 95

📍 Comcast • Feb 2021 - Present

+1000 XP 🤖 AI Master

✓ Enabled AI capabilities with LLMs for customers
✓ Increased dev efficiency by 18%
✓ Improved model accuracy by 10%
✓ Reduced model dev time by 23% & latency by 15%
✓ Led Kubernetes platform migration

AI/ML LLMs KUBERNETES PYTHON

▶ BOSS BATTLE: Gears Platform Launch LVL 85

📍 Comcast SVIC • Jul 2016 - Feb 2021

+2000 XP 💰 $5M Gold 🎖️ 99.98% Uptime

✓ Deployed Gears Platform (440M API req/month)
✓ Delivered $3M OpEx + $1.9M vendor savings
✓ Managed 33M notifications/month to 8M users
✓ Achieved 99.98%+ API success rate
✓ Built Datadog monitoring infrastructure
✓ Delivered Xfinity Rules Service (open source)

GO AWS KAFKA DATADOG

▶ MAIN QUEST: Senior Software Engineer LVL 70

📍 Comcast SVIC • Sep 2013 - Jul 2016

+800 XP 🎤 Speaker Unlocked

✓ Architected company-wide rules engine
✓ Deployed AWS production infrastructure
✓ Implemented Jenkins/Terraform CI/CD
✓ Founded "Building Better Software" program
✓ Spoke at GopherCon 2015

AWS TERRAFORM JENKINS

▶ STARTER QUEST: Engineer & Architect LVL 50

📍 Comcast SVIC • Mar 2011 - Sep 2013

+500 XP 🎮 Career Started

✓ Implemented build & deploy processes
✓ Introduced API documentation via RAML
✓ Built distributed systems (Thrift, Cassandra)
✓ Created cross-language logging libraries

PYTHON CASSANDRA NODE.JS

═══ SKILL TREE ═══

💻 PROGRAMMING

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Python

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SQL

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Java

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C++

🤖 AI/ML

⭐

LLMs

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PyTorch

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TensorFlow

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RAG

🟢

Spark

☁️ CLOUD

⭐

AWS

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GCP

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Azure

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K8s

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Docker

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Terraform

🗄️ DATABASES

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Postgres

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MySQL

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Dynamo

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Elastic

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Mongo

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Cassandra

⚙️ DEVOPS

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Jenkins

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GH Actions

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Ansible

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Kafka

📊 MONITORING

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Datadog

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Splunk

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OTEL

🟢 Mastered ⭐ Legendary

═══ ACHIEVEMENTS ═══

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Platform Master

Built platform handling 440M+ API requests/month

Unlocked: 2020

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Cost Slayer

Delivered $5M+ in total savings

Unlocked: 2021

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Uptime Legend

Achieved 99.98%+ API success rate

Unlocked: 2019

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AI Pioneer

Productionized LLMs for millions of users

Unlocked: 2022

👥

Team Builder

Established engineering guilds & mentorship programs

Unlocked: 2024

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Speaker

Delivered 45+ tech talks & presentations

Unlocked: 2017

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Open Source Hero

Published Rulio & Sheens on GitHub

Unlocked: 2016

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Notification King

Delivered 33M notifications/month to 8M users

Unlocked: 2018

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Speed Demon

Reduced model dev time by 23% & latency by 15%

Unlocked: 2023

🎓

Toastmaster

Competent Communicator & Leadership awards

Unlocked: 2016

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DevOps Master

Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible

Unlocked: 2015

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Efficiency Expert

Increased team dev efficiency by 18%

Unlocked: 2022

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📍 LOCATION

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💼 STATUS

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