Greg Werner
Planet Earth, United States
Summary
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SeniorGreg Werner is a seasoned software founder and operator with two decades of SaaS experience, currently building IllumiChat, an AI support assistant that retrieves real-time, contextual answers from a team's documents without retraining. He previously founded IllumiDesk and co-founded Reachcore, exiting a cloud B2B e-invoicing and supply-chain business serving Mexico’s oil & gas, insurance, telco and financial sectors. An engineer at heart, he has contributed to backend work on JupyterHub, focusing on testing, refactoring for performance and style, and robust error handling for external services. He blends entrepreneurial grit with formal business training, holding an MBA from Thunderbird and a Masters from the University of Illinois Springfield, after earning a BA from Emory University. Based in Atlanta, he leads product strategy and engineering, delivering pragmatic AI-enabled tooling for real-world knowledge management. Early access to IllumiChat is open to support teams and AI practitioners curious about RAG/GPT architectures.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
back-end10
backend10
jupyterhub10
back-end-development10
python10
testing9
api-design8
documentation7
documentations7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterhub/jupyterhub
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the JupyterHub project. Their work included updating documentation related to testing procedures, refactoring code for improved performance and style (e.g. using `black`), and addressing timezone handling issues. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to error handling, specifically how errors are reported by external services. Finally, there are also some comments updated.
pythonjupyter-notebooknotebooksjupytermulti-user
IllumiDesk/flatiron-stacks
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
The Flatiron School images for graders and learners
Contributions:60 PRs, 62 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 1 month
flatiron-schoolflatironlearners
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