Aryk Grosz
Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Startup
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAryk Grosz is a seasoned startup founder and engineering leader with 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades building product-driven companies, best known as CTO and co‑founder of Mixbook where he helped grow an idea into an $11M-funded, widely used photo-sharing platform. He blends deep technical chops—contributing to Ruby open-source state-machine tooling for ORMs like ActiveRecord and Mongoid—with product intuition that prioritizes delightful, collaborative user experiences. Now CEO of a stealth food-tech startup and a Mixbook board member, he pairs strategic oversight with active product work, recently exploring healthier consumer choices. A UC Berkeley industrial engineering alum and Forbes Technology Council member, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset informed by early simulation and database roles and a knack for turning messy startup problems into scalable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, BS Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley
English, Russian, Romanian
Github Skills (9)
activerecord10
sequel10
mongodb10
mongoid10
ruby10
transactionscope9
transaction9
transaction-manager9
rspec9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aasm/aasm
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 17 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Aryk's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the AASM (Actor-based State Machine) library for Ruby. They addressed deprecation warnings related to Sequel, added aliases for event methods, and incorporated transaction support and locking mechanisms for Sequel, ActiveRecord and Mongoid. The user also refactored code to DRY up shared components and fix Dynamoid specs, improving the library's persistence layer and ORM functionality.
ruby-on-railsmachinesmongoidrailsfsm-library
Aryk/dead_simple_cms
Jul 2015 - Mar 2019
DeadSimpleCMS provides a way to create a configuration for different parts of your application.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 7 months
phpparts
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