Graden Rea
Software Engineer at Groq
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGraden Rea is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance networking and systems software across companies from F5 Networks to Groq. He combines deep Unix and networking instincts with hands-on C/C++ systems work and a track record of ownership—having run the Policy Enforcement Point at F5 and contributed to production dataplanes and security tooling. Graden has progressed from intern to senior engineer roles, solving priority customer issues, adding IPv6 and LDAP integrations, and delivering resilient components in constrained, high-throughput environments. Now at Groq, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and a curiosity for new technologies to accelerate product delivery. Based in California, he pairs a Santa Clara University computer engineering background with a long-standing interest in low-level debugging and packet-level analysis. Outside work he has entrepreneurial roots—founding a high-school robotics club that raised funds and won regional awards—illustrating early leadership and initiative.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (16)
vector-database10
fine-tuning10
application10
llm10
chatbot9
embedding9
llama-index9
gpt9
nodejs9
data-structures9
agent8
javascript8
react8
openai7
typescript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
groq/groq-python
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
The official Python Library for the Groq API
Contributions:19 reviews, 20 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 1 month
managed-by-terraform
groq/groq-typescript
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
The official Node.js / Typescript library for the Groq API
Contributions:25 reviews, 33 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 1 month
managed-by-terraform
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