AJ Grubbs
Senior Software Engineer at Venmo
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAJ Grubbs is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with a decade of experience building backend systems, improving DevOps practices, and hardening security across startups and enterprise products. Currently at Venmo, he brings prior engineering experience from blockchain-focused ConsenSys and leadership roles where he overhauled DevOps, automated compliance checks, and mentored teams. He pairs full-stack fluency—from Java and Scala to infrastructure monitoring—with an operator’s mindset for reliability and incident response. A focused security student with a master’s in cybersecurity, AJ has frequently acted as the designated security responder and has a track record of shipping pragmatic, auditable solutions. Notably, he moves quickly between prototyping and production-grade work, having created internal tools, custom CRMs, and monitoring systems that improved operational visibility.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityMaster's degree, Cybersecurity, Master's degree, Cybersecurity at DePaul University
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Github Skills (23)
data-structure9
ethereum9
python-client9
python8
flask-sqlalchemy7
flask6
confluent-cloud6
sqlalchemy6
java6
confluent6
ubuntu6
producer5
librdkafka5
connect5
kafka4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
5thColumn/vee
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:58 PRs, 66 pushes, 61 branches in 2 months
ConsenSysMesh/py-eip712-structs
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
EIP712 data structure management for python
Contributions:12 releases, 68 commits, 26 PRs in 5 months
ethereumeip712pythondata-structure
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