Brenden Grace
Chief Executive Officer at Vistaly
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenden Grace is a seasoned technology executive with 15 years of experience leading engineering, product, and go-to-market efforts for high-scale platforms and startups. Currently CEO of Datastruct and a longtime fractional CTO and advisor, he has a track record of architecting low-latency systems (programmatic bidders and tag-serving platforms) and scaling teams to deliver ML-driven pipelines and revenue outcomes. His career spans hands-on systems work—from kernel and embedded OS development to building cloud SaaS—and senior leadership roles including VP of Engineering and multiple CTO positions. Brenden combines operational rigor (continuous deployment, infrastructure automation) with product sensibility as a Field CTO and board advisor, helping founders and people leaders align technology strategy to business growth. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he brings uncommon breadth: deep systems-level experience, proven high-throughput web infrastructure design, and practical fractional leadership through f-cto.com.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science Data Network Communications, Bachelors of Science Computer Science Data Network Communications at James Madison University
Github Skills (33)
eventmachine10
sdk9
octokit-js9
mongodb-driver9
mongodb8
octokit8
nodejs7
javascript7
rubyml5
typescript5
github5
artificial-intelligence4
deno4
machine-learning4
low-level3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DemystData/fluent-plugin-remote_syslog
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
papertrailfluentd-pluginfluentdsyslogplugin
DemystData/remote_syslog_logger
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
railsloggerlogger-rubysyslogruby
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