Jerry Fernholz

Experience

Rentables

Founder, Founder | Lead RoR Engineer | CEO 2012 - 2018 (almost 6 years)

Responsible for the overall design, implementation, and maintenance of the Rentables platform including the custom accounting system, check printing service, property maintenance... more

Exit

LinQuest

Principal Engineer and Project Manager 2004 - 2012 (almost 8 years)

Managed resources and provided technical leadership for multiple software development and satellite system engineering projects across multiple government and contractor organizations.... more

broadvoice

VP of Software Engineering 2018 - Present (about 8 years)

Founder

Rentables

Employee

broadvoice, LinQuest

Education

About

Skills

Ruby on Rails MySQL Machine Learning Web Applications Problem Solving Debugging Software Architecture Recommender Systems JSON / XML / HTML / Javascript / JQuery Ideation

Q&A

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Bouldering in South Africa or some other exotic rock climbing destination with my wife (#mywifeclimbs).

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

When you have the opportunity to invest and make guaranteed 3x day-one, take out a bigger HELOC.

What's your super power?

I think like the machine.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Navigate to the Underground. Bring a crash pad.

What words of wisdom do you live by?

The decisions you make today will define how you live the rest of your life.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

The part where it ended.

What's something you wish you had done years earlier?

Started rock climbing.

Jerry Fernholz

VP of Software Engineering @broadvoice. Used HELOC (crazy) to make my first angel investment in 2004 (22x), hooked ever since.