Gary Gitelson
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Jay Brown
Gary and I started on the same day at Pelican Imaging, both as Principal Engineers. By the end of the day, we were cracking each other up, having fun digging through Pelican’s source code. Gary is very smart - top that off with character and integrity of the highest caliber. For a couple of years, our teams worked hard and very creatively to implement the
Mushfiq Alam
Gary is my manager for the last eighteen month, and it is a great experience working under his supervision. I work as imaging researcher where I develop imaging algorithms for camera pipeline. Gary has been extremely supportive throughout all of my projects. In many cases I run into issues for example, explaining part of a complicated algorithm, getting input and output of an algorithm, or simply brainstorm on an algorithm. In any of such situations if I ask for help from Gary I get instant feedback. Gary would either talk with me or even sit with me to write code to resolve the issue. If he thinks anybody else can help me with the problem he would make sure I get support. His positive attitude toward solving critical issues has inspired me in many cases to reach my goals. Apart from projects, he has been very supportive for my other official issues so that I can continue to work on my projects without worry. A great quality of Gary is that he loves to share his experiences and knowledge with all of the engineers during break hours; which created a very healthy work environment. Due to the nature of my work I need to attend technical conferences, and Gary has been always enthusiastic to send me in those conferences. He has been very helpful to talk both before and after the conference event. I had the chance to attend one conference with him. He is very good in understanding technical talks. Furthermore, I have noticed he is very good in networking. One quality I have to mention about Gary is that he is an excellent writer, he has inspired me to improve my writing skill for technical reports. Gary puts every effort on every single day to make sure all of the engineering groups can successfully complete their projects in due time. In a nutshell, Gary is the driving force of the engineering team, without him we would not have been able to successfully complete our projects. He is a great person as well, he understands family emergencies, he helps to create better work life balance in the office. Lastly, I always wait to get a nice box of chocolate from him before the holiday season, nobody wants to miss that. If situation arises, I would love to work under his supervision without any doubt.
Jay Brown
Gary and I started on the same day at Pelican Imaging, both as Principal Engineers. By the end of the day, we were cracking each other up, having fun digging through Pelican’s source code. Gary is very smart - top that off with character and integrity of the highest caliber. For a couple of years, our teams worked hard and very creatively to implement the
Mushfiq Alam
Gary is my manager for the last eighteen month, and it is a great experience working under his supervision. I work as imaging researcher where I develop imaging algorithms for camera pipeline. Gary has been extremely supportive throughout all of my projects. In many cases I run into issues for example, explaining part of a complicated algorithm, getting input and output of an algorithm, or simply brainstorm on an algorithm. In any of such situations if I ask for help from Gary I get instant feedback. Gary would either talk with me or even sit with me to write code to resolve the issue. If he thinks anybody else can help me with the problem he would make sure I get support. His positive attitude toward solving critical issues has inspired me in many cases to reach my goals. Apart from projects, he has been very supportive for my other official issues so that I can continue to work on my projects without worry. A great quality of Gary is that he loves to share his experiences and knowledge with all of the engineers during break hours; which created a very healthy work environment. Due to the nature of my work I need to attend technical conferences, and Gary has been always enthusiastic to send me in those conferences. He has been very helpful to talk both before and after the conference event. I had the chance to attend one conference with him. He is very good in understanding technical talks. Furthermore, I have noticed he is very good in networking. One quality I have to mention about Gary is that he is an excellent writer, he has inspired me to improve my writing skill for technical reports. Gary puts every effort on every single day to make sure all of the engineering groups can successfully complete their projects in due time. In a nutshell, Gary is the driving force of the engineering team, without him we would not have been able to successfully complete our projects. He is a great person as well, he understands family emergencies, he helps to create better work life balance in the office. Lastly, I always wait to get a nice box of chocolate from him before the holiday season, nobody wants to miss that. If situation arises, I would love to work under his supervision without any doubt.
Jay Brown
Gary and I started on the same day at Pelican Imaging, both as Principal Engineers. By the end of the day, we were cracking each other up, having fun digging through Pelican’s source code. Gary is very smart - top that off with character and integrity of the highest caliber. For a couple of years, our teams worked hard and very creatively to implement the
Mushfiq Alam
Gary is my manager for the last eighteen month, and it is a great experience working under his supervision. I work as imaging researcher where I develop imaging algorithms for camera pipeline. Gary has been extremely supportive throughout all of my projects. In many cases I run into issues for example, explaining part of a complicated algorithm, getting input and output of an algorithm, or simply brainstorm on an algorithm. In any of such situations if I ask for help from Gary I get instant feedback. Gary would either talk with me or even sit with me to write code to resolve the issue. If he thinks anybody else can help me with the problem he would make sure I get support. His positive attitude toward solving critical issues has inspired me in many cases to reach my goals. Apart from projects, he has been very supportive for my other official issues so that I can continue to work on my projects without worry. A great quality of Gary is that he loves to share his experiences and knowledge with all of the engineers during break hours; which created a very healthy work environment. Due to the nature of my work I need to attend technical conferences, and Gary has been always enthusiastic to send me in those conferences. He has been very helpful to talk both before and after the conference event. I had the chance to attend one conference with him. He is very good in understanding technical talks. Furthermore, I have noticed he is very good in networking. One quality I have to mention about Gary is that he is an excellent writer, he has inspired me to improve my writing skill for technical reports. Gary puts every effort on every single day to make sure all of the engineering groups can successfully complete their projects in due time. In a nutshell, Gary is the driving force of the engineering team, without him we would not have been able to successfully complete our projects. He is a great person as well, he understands family emergencies, he helps to create better work life balance in the office. Lastly, I always wait to get a nice box of chocolate from him before the holiday season, nobody wants to miss that. If situation arises, I would love to work under his supervision without any doubt.
Jay Brown
Gary and I started on the same day at Pelican Imaging, both as Principal Engineers. By the end of the day, we were cracking each other up, having fun digging through Pelican’s source code. Gary is very smart - top that off with character and integrity of the highest caliber. For a couple of years, our teams worked hard and very creatively to implement the
Mushfiq Alam
Gary is my manager for the last eighteen month, and it is a great experience working under his supervision. I work as imaging researcher where I develop imaging algorithms for camera pipeline. Gary has been extremely supportive throughout all of my projects. In many cases I run into issues for example, explaining part of a complicated algorithm, getting input and output of an algorithm, or simply brainstorm on an algorithm. In any of such situations if I ask for help from Gary I get instant feedback. Gary would either talk with me or even sit with me to write code to resolve the issue. If he thinks anybody else can help me with the problem he would make sure I get support. His positive attitude toward solving critical issues has inspired me in many cases to reach my goals. Apart from projects, he has been very supportive for my other official issues so that I can continue to work on my projects without worry. A great quality of Gary is that he loves to share his experiences and knowledge with all of the engineers during break hours; which created a very healthy work environment. Due to the nature of my work I need to attend technical conferences, and Gary has been always enthusiastic to send me in those conferences. He has been very helpful to talk both before and after the conference event. I had the chance to attend one conference with him. He is very good in understanding technical talks. Furthermore, I have noticed he is very good in networking. One quality I have to mention about Gary is that he is an excellent writer, he has inspired me to improve my writing skill for technical reports. Gary puts every effort on every single day to make sure all of the engineering groups can successfully complete their projects in due time. In a nutshell, Gary is the driving force of the engineering team, without him we would not have been able to successfully complete our projects. He is a great person as well, he understands family emergencies, he helps to create better work life balance in the office. Lastly, I always wait to get a nice box of chocolate from him before the holiday season, nobody wants to miss that. If situation arises, I would love to work under his supervision without any doubt.
Credentials
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AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native
CourseraMar, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Cloud Computing Applications, Part 2: Big Data and Applications in the Cloud
CourseraMar, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Cloud Networking
CourseraMar, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Cloud Computing Applications, Part 1: Cloud Systems and Infrastructure
CourseraFeb, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Cloud Computing Concepts: Part 2
CourseraFeb, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Cloud Computing Concepts, Part 1
CourseraJan, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Machine Learning
Coursera Course CertificatesDec, 2016- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Band of Angels
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United States
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Member
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Mar 2023 - Present
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VMware
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Director, Edge Innovation
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May 2021 - Present
Leading the Edge Innovation team with the SEBU Office of the CTO. This is a small team responsible for architecture evolution and early prototyping of next generation Edge Compute, SDWAN, and SASE services delivered on-premise, in the cloud, and in VMware's hosted POP infrastructure. The team works collaboratively with SEBU Engineering, and across other BUs within VMware as well as with external development partners, vendors, and customers to define, prototype, and deliver new service… Show more Leading the Edge Innovation team with the SEBU Office of the CTO. This is a small team responsible for architecture evolution and early prototyping of next generation Edge Compute, SDWAN, and SASE services delivered on-premise, in the cloud, and in VMware's hosted POP infrastructure. The team works collaboratively with SEBU Engineering, and across other BUs within VMware as well as with external development partners, vendors, and customers to define, prototype, and deliver new service offerings and new architectures for delivering services as part of VMWare SASE. Show less Leading the Edge Innovation team with the SEBU Office of the CTO. This is a small team responsible for architecture evolution and early prototyping of next generation Edge Compute, SDWAN, and SASE services delivered on-premise, in the cloud, and in VMware's hosted POP infrastructure. The team works collaboratively with SEBU Engineering, and across other BUs within VMware as well as with external development partners, vendors, and customers to define, prototype, and deliver new service… Show more Leading the Edge Innovation team with the SEBU Office of the CTO. This is a small team responsible for architecture evolution and early prototyping of next generation Edge Compute, SDWAN, and SASE services delivered on-premise, in the cloud, and in VMware's hosted POP infrastructure. The team works collaboratively with SEBU Engineering, and across other BUs within VMware as well as with external development partners, vendors, and customers to define, prototype, and deliver new service offerings and new architectures for delivering services as part of VMWare SASE. Show less
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Google
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineering Manager
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Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Responsible for leading a team developing deployment and testing infrastructure for Google's server-based products. Led a multiple virtual teams, coordinated development, and collaborated with technical leads to define architecture. This project was a comprehensive re-architecture of multiple frameworks that were in use across the company, with the goal of unifying behind a single framework, and enhancing engineer productivity and development feature velocity. Responsible for leading a team developing deployment and testing infrastructure for Google's server-based products. Led a multiple virtual teams, coordinated development, and collaborated with technical leads to define architecture. This project was a comprehensive re-architecture of multiple frameworks that were in use across the company, with the goal of unifying behind a single framework, and enhancing engineer productivity and development feature velocity.
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Gitelson Consulting Services
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San Francisco Bay Area
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Principal Engineer
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Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Provided engineering services on systems architecture, performance and infrastructure development. Here are some selected highlights form clients I have worked with: • Software defined networking – worked with lead architect on system architecture, software refactoring, and performance optimization. Enabled flexible configuration of their pipeline to optimize product performance for a variety of embedded and virtual execution environments. • Imaging processing pipeline – achieved a 500%… Show more Provided engineering services on systems architecture, performance and infrastructure development. Here are some selected highlights form clients I have worked with: • Software defined networking – worked with lead architect on system architecture, software refactoring, and performance optimization. Enabled flexible configuration of their pipeline to optimize product performance for a variety of embedded and virtual execution environments. • Imaging processing pipeline – achieved a 500% performance improvement for photo post-processing pipeline, which was instrumental in winning new business from a major photo sharing service. • e-Sports training platform startup – built cloud backend for performance data collection and analysis as well as portions of the UI for their player training platform Show less Provided engineering services on systems architecture, performance and infrastructure development. Here are some selected highlights form clients I have worked with: • Software defined networking – worked with lead architect on system architecture, software refactoring, and performance optimization. Enabled flexible configuration of their pipeline to optimize product performance for a variety of embedded and virtual execution environments. • Imaging processing pipeline – achieved a 500%… Show more Provided engineering services on systems architecture, performance and infrastructure development. Here are some selected highlights form clients I have worked with: • Software defined networking – worked with lead architect on system architecture, software refactoring, and performance optimization. Enabled flexible configuration of their pipeline to optimize product performance for a variety of embedded and virtual execution environments. • Imaging processing pipeline – achieved a 500% performance improvement for photo post-processing pipeline, which was instrumental in winning new business from a major photo sharing service. • e-Sports training platform startup – built cloud backend for performance data collection and analysis as well as portions of the UI for their player training platform Show less
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mPerpetuo, Inc.
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Palo Alto, CA
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Vice President of Engineering
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Jan 2015 - May 2018
Built and managed the entire engineering team from first hire, and recruited top engineering talent to grow to the organization to 25 engineers organized into 5 teams. I defined product architecture working with the CTO and our key external strategic partners. Drove the team to meet key milestones and success metrics, and led our engineering team to deliver prototype technology demonstrators to our key partners. Designed software architecture to allow flexible use of smartphone application… Show more Built and managed the entire engineering team from first hire, and recruited top engineering talent to grow to the organization to 25 engineers organized into 5 teams. I defined product architecture working with the CTO and our key external strategic partners. Drove the team to meet key milestones and success metrics, and led our engineering team to deliver prototype technology demonstrators to our key partners. Designed software architecture to allow flexible use of smartphone application processors for high-end consumer camera imaging pipeline, utilizing CPU, GPU, DSP, and ISP resources to achieve maximum performance. Show less Built and managed the entire engineering team from first hire, and recruited top engineering talent to grow to the organization to 25 engineers organized into 5 teams. I defined product architecture working with the CTO and our key external strategic partners. Drove the team to meet key milestones and success metrics, and led our engineering team to deliver prototype technology demonstrators to our key partners. Designed software architecture to allow flexible use of smartphone application… Show more Built and managed the entire engineering team from first hire, and recruited top engineering talent to grow to the organization to 25 engineers organized into 5 teams. I defined product architecture working with the CTO and our key external strategic partners. Drove the team to meet key milestones and success metrics, and led our engineering team to deliver prototype technology demonstrators to our key partners. Designed software architecture to allow flexible use of smartphone application processors for high-end consumer camera imaging pipeline, utilizing CPU, GPU, DSP, and ISP resources to achieve maximum performance. Show less
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Pelican Imaging
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United States
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Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
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Vice President of Engineering
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Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Led the entire product engineering team of 30 engineers, comprised of 3 teams responsible for development of the Imaging Pipeline, Android Camera Framework, and UI and applications for both Windows and Android platforms. Managed interactions with external partners to perform technology evaluations and provide support in their product decision-making process. Led the definition of external API and SDK for delivery to external partners who were looking to integrate our technology.
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Director, Software Engineering
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Aug 2013 - Sep 2014
Led team responsible for optimizing imaging pipeline performance, achieving improvement of 100x in key performance metrics in under 1 year.
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Principal Engineer
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Oct 2012 - Aug 2013
Developed a heterogeneous computing framework for mobile applications processor, to allow the simultaneous utilization of CPU, GPU and DSP for image processing
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Engineer - Corporate Development Technology Group
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Sep 2010 - Oct 2012
Responsible for incubating and developing new and novel technologies focused on expanding the software-based networking capabilities of Cisco products. Developed novel implementation of BGP and other core networking protocols utilizing a new domain-specific language designed by the team.
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Technical Leader - Networking Systems and Solutions Technology Group (NSSTG)
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Jun 2006 - Sep 2010
Led architecture for major IOS refactoring project with Cisco’s core networking OS group, which included system-level re-architecture of over 20% of the total OS codebase, which measured over 50 MLOC. Led a core architecture team of 10 engineers, and provided technical architecture and direction for a virtual team of over 200. Drove over 50% reduction in incoming defects within the rearchitected technologies and dramatically increased feature velocity and code reuse. This project received… Show more Led architecture for major IOS refactoring project with Cisco’s core networking OS group, which included system-level re-architecture of over 20% of the total OS codebase, which measured over 50 MLOC. Led a core architecture team of 10 engineers, and provided technical architecture and direction for a virtual team of over 200. Drove over 50% reduction in incoming defects within the rearchitected technologies and dramatically increased feature velocity and code reuse. This project received the Cisco Pioneer Award, one of only four projects that year within all of Cisco engineering
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Technical Leader
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Jun 2001 - Jun 2006
Lead developer and designer for installation and patching support for Cisco Modular IOS. This was a first of its kind software upgrade capability for Cisco, allowing point fixes and limited impact upgrades to core software on a running system for the first time. I filed and received 2 patents stemming from this work
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Software Engineer
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Jun 1998 - Jun 2001
Worked within the Software Engineering Solutions group, designing and developing software engineering tools including language tools, testing tools, code coverage and code analysis tools. Worked with internal engineering customers providing technical expertise and support, as well as developing new tools and features in response to customer requests.
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Education
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2000 - 2002
Northeastern University
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1994 - 1998
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering/Computer Science
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