Summary
Grant Hummer is a San Francisco-based software founder and investor who has built and scaled backend systems for startups over a decade. He currently co-founded Etherealize and acts as an Angel Investor, combining hands-on engineering with strategic product and funding insight in the SF Bay Area. Previously, as Managing Director at Chromatic Capital (2017–2020), he helped evaluate and guide early-stage technology companies, while earlier roles at Ticketfly involved building back-end and platform systems using Groovy, Grails, Scala, Java, Play Framework, OAuth 2, distributed architectures, microservices, Kafka, and AWS with a test-driven approach. His career also spans economic consulting and financial advisory, reflecting a rigorous, analytical mindset applied to tech and growth strategies. Grant's unique blend of technical depth, startup execution, and investing perspective positions him to translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable software and outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish