Summary
Debbie Gray is a senior technology leader with over 15 years of experience turning complex mission-driven requirements into scalable digital products, currently leading Digital Technology at Fair Trade USA. She blends product strategy, human-centered research, and engineering fluency to align business goals, partner needs, and delivery constraints across Product, UX, Engineering, Data, and CRM. Known for rebuilding discovery and prioritization practices, she creates operating norms and career paths that increase delivery confidence and organizational health. Debbie’s hands-on background as a designer-developer and former agency owner gives her uncommon empathy for craft while retaining executive-level focus on impact and sustainability. Based in Sebastopol, she thrives in collaborative cultures with mature leadership and high expectations for measurable user value.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Web Development, Web Development at Santa Rosa Junior College
Web Developer Certificate Graphic Design/Web Design and Development, Web Developer Certificate Graphic Design/Web Design and Development at Sessions College for Professional Design
French, English