Gabe Hayes is a seasoned engineering leader and consultant with 13 years of experience taking products from zero to market and scaling teams into 25+ person cross-functional organizations. He combines hands-on product and platform engineering with pragmatic leadership—having owned engineering, product, and design at HiHello and driven features like SAML SSO, SCIM, and SOC 2 Type 2 readiness. Gabe now advises companies on AI strategy, engineering modernization, and cloud architecture for high‑scale data platforms, including consulting for a PE‑backed advertising intelligence firm processing $156B+ in media spend. His background spans startups to large enterprises (Disney, RICOH) and includes practical DevOps work such as integrating CI systems for open-source tooling. Beyond leadership, he still ships products and experiments with AI, bringing both builder’s curiosity and operational rigor to strategic technical decisions. Based in Paso Robles, he pairs startup grit with experience running engineering at scale.
Contributions summary:Gabe focused on integrating CircleCI into the existing project. Their primary contributions included adding support for CircleCI by modifying the `getOptions.js` file to set the `service_name` and `service_job_id` based on environment variables. Additionally, they added tests to verify CircleCI integration. They also worked on fetching git data from the command line, implementing a fallback mechanism when a proper git hash is not passed.
Contributions:3 releases, 54 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 months
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