Duncan Grazier
Chief AI Officer at AF
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDuncan Grazier is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years of experience scaling teams and products from startup to exit and IPO. He builds companies and platforms that leverage AI as a force multiplier—most recently founding Aqen.ai to provide founders with end-to-end execution (legal, finance, marketing, ops) and Grazier Ventures to spin up AI-enabled businesses. Previously he scaled Weedmaps’ engineering org 10x through its public transition and led ShopKeep’s tech through a $440M acquisition, then shaped AI strategy as Chief AI Officer at BuildOps during its unicorn phase. Duncan advises founders, investors, and CTOs through TideHelm, combining hands-on technical depth with board-level operational judgment. He writes weekly about AI implementation and engineering leadership, and his practical “Minutes Added to Workforce” framework reframes AI ROI as capacity expansion rather than mere cost cutting. Based in Los Angeles, he’s equally comfortable shipping code, coaching leadership, and architecting the infrastructure that makes AI-native companies repeatable.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (99)
rails10
linux9
html9
ruby9
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
jenkins9
swift8
bdd8
javascript8
windows8
linkedin-api8
coreos8
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
itsmeduncan/gonductor
Jan 2015 - Mar 2022
MTA subway line status command line tool
Contributions:2 releases, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 2 months
command-line-toolmtastatussubwaycli
itsmeduncan/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:27 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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