About

Gary Bernitz is an experienced Engineering Manager at Meta, with over 21 years of relevant experience in the industry. He has a proven track record of building great teams and delivering successful projects. Currently, Gary holds the position of Engineering Manager at Meta, where he is responsible for managing and leading the engineering team. He is involved in building and scaling products, as well as establishing best practices in every phase of the software development life cycle. Prior to joining Meta, Gary served as VP Engineering at rewardStyle, where he played a key role in building and growing the company from its infancy to over $1B in annual revenue. He led the software team across the globe, and drove the SDLC from the ‘cowboy’ phase to agile/scrum and into Scaled Agile Frameworks. He also spearheaded the migration from virtualized deployment stack to an automated containerized deploy stack leveraging Kubernetes and Docker. Gary has also served as Vice President of Technology at Cornerworld Corporation, where he was responsible for managing the technology team and delivering successful projects. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has experience in a wide range of technologies, including Microservices, AWS, Random Forest, Frontend, SRE, Image Processing, Kubernetes, Docker, Data Science, MongoDB, Cassandra, iOS, DevOps, ETL, Web, Python, Golang, Android, and AngularJS. Overall, Gary is a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager with a strong focus on building great teams and delivering successful projects.