Gerald Todd

Software Engineer

Summary

Software engineer who builds AI systems people can trust with high-stakes work. Before software I taught university mathematics for four years, and I hold two master’s degrees in math. I’m at my best turning a messy, important problem into something clear enough to ship and to explain.

Experience

Software Engineer III, Einstein Industries

Sep 2022 – present

Remote

  • Designed and built, as the sole engineer, a multi-agent deliberation system for legal work. A chair agent assembles the question, stakes, values and required confidence into a brief for sandboxed models from several providers, merges their drafts, and repeats until the panel votes unanimously. Any agent can pause to ask the operator for more context.
  • Co-built a FastMCP server whose tools gather a client’s context from across the internal application suite and draft a working model of the finished product for human review. Measured throughput on that client work rose 10×.
  • Replaced a 2012-era authentication system with AWS Cognito and Google sign-in across the application suite, partnering with the sysadmin.
  • Led the team on a major release of the in-house product-creation software; built integration modules and abstract APIs moving data between internal and external REST services.

Full-Stack Developer, AdaptiveStack

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022

Remote. PHP development on a federal contract for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

  • Built the portals veterans used to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination or exemption, and the workflow supervisors used to approve or return each report.
  • Led the application’s security audit, which earned a three-year Authority to Operate, the longest in its eleven-year history.

Founder and Developer, iOSTheme.live

Nov 2020 – Jun 2021

Portland, OR

  • Built a browser-based engine that generates custom iOS themes and installs them as configuration profiles, on a custom PHP framework.
  • Formed an LLC, hired and trained a contract graphic designer, and ran SEO and ad campaigns. The code is now open source.

Full-Stack Developer, Scan123

Jul 2019 – Jun 2020

Gresham, OR

  • Wrote and optimized PHP and SQL for a document-scanning product on a LEMP stack, working in Scrum.
  • Served on the hiring committee for two developers and designed the coding challenges and interview questions.

Mathematics Instructor, University of Montana

Aug 2014 – Jun 2018

Missoula, MT

  • Taught college algebra, applied calculus, probability and linear math, Calculus II and statistics to about 80 students a semester.
  • Built interactive Mathematica lessons for a new touch-screen classroom.
  • Twice won the College of Arts and Sciences award for the highest TA student evaluations.

Education

Research and speaking

Skills

AI systems
Multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (FastMCP), LLM APIs across providers, Evaluation and consensus design
Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS
Frameworks
React, Next.js, Node.js, Astro, Prisma
Infrastructure
AWS Cognito, Docker, Linux, nginx, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GitHub Actions
Mathematics
Combinatorics, Optimization, Matroid theory, Mathematica, MATLAB, R, LaTeX

Honors and certifications