Chase Gray is a seasoned software leader with 16+ years of hands-on engineering experience and two decades in the industry, currently serving as Head of Software in Denver. He’s scaled engineering organizations from a handful of engineers to 100+, led major frontend rewrites and developer productivity initiatives at Aurora and DroneDeploy, and played pivotal technical leadership roles at three unicorns. A founder of a profitable data-focused startup, he combines product-minded engineering with practical operational tooling—CI/CD, test parallelization, GraphQL, and SDKs—that have materially improved developer velocity and enterprise revenue. He also brings research-grade systems thinking from academic and NSA work, applying rigorous problem-solving to performance, reliability, and test-flakiness at scale.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of South Carolina
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