Sven Gerlach

Background

About Sven Gerlach

I am a full-stack Software Engineer, with 7 completed and deployed projects utilising 4 languages and >20 frameworks/libraries/utilities. I am ranking in the top 5% of more than 1 million people who took the timed JavaScript skill assessment on LinkedIn.Prior to Software Development, I built a career in Investment Banking and Private Equity for more than a decade, where I developed a broad skill base, including: • Managing more than 10 projects at a time, • Key contact for C-level executives of multi-billion dollar companies, • Managing teams of 10 bankers, • Drafting and presenting deal documents to C-level executives • Negotiating on behalf of demanding clients • Building hundreds of Excel-based operating and valuation modelsI am excited by: • A long-run personal and professional growth trajectory • Writing clean, human-readable and efficient code • Algorithms, machine learning, AI and neural networks • Customer-friendly design of the UI with a strong focus on UX • Understanding complex systems and process