Gerardo Riano
Chief Technology Officer at Simulacrum
Bogota, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolGerardo Riano is a technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building AI-driven, cloud-secure systems and complex system models. He currently leads Simulacrum after a Runway Startup Founder stint at Cornell Tech, where he helped bridge academic research and startup innovation. His background spans research-grade algorithm development for large-scale water systems and hands-on product work at Microsoft improving Azure Key Vault governance and secrets lifecycle. Gerardo blends deep academic training—a PhD from UT Austin and dual engineering degrees from Universidad de los Andes—with applied engineering that produced open-source tools used worldwide. He has a track record of moving high-performance distributed algorithms into production settings and influencing public-sector tech standards across Latin America. Based in the New York City area, he combines rigorous research instincts with pragmatic security and cloud governance experience to ship auditable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science - MS Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering at Universidad de los Andes - Colombia
English
Github Skills (22)
conda10
microsoft-azure10
conda-forge9
simulation9
fortran9
azure8
water8
ord7
modeling7
aws5
time-series-forecasting5
aws-sdk5
benchmarking5
python5
javascript5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gandresr/ptsnet
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
Parallel Transient Simulation in Water Networks
Contributions:4 releases, 521 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 11 months
simulation
gandresr/FLibSWMM
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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