Grant Hutchins
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Stealth
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Hutchins is a seasoned vice president of software engineering with 17 years building full-stack web applications, currently leading engineering at GridStrong to modernize compliance for energy grid interconnections. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL, and is the author of widely used Ruby gems like pg_search and with_model that enhance full-text search and model behaviors. Grant combines hands-on coding with product-focused leadership, having shipped large-scale systems from a 3D GIS-enabled valuation model at Stronghold to a million-user community at Spiceworks. His background in Electrical and Computer Engineering resurfaces in energy and DSP projects, including a commercial software synthesizer and ongoing audio-signal processing work. A long-time practitioner of pair programming and XP from his Pivotal Labs years, he excels at mentoring teams and embedding modern engineering practices. Based in Austin, he balances deep technical contributions with entrepreneurial instincts and practical product delivery.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Greek
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ruby
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Github Skills (23)
git10
postgresql10
scripting10
setuptools10
configuration-management10
bash10
ruby10
homebrew10
script10
activerecord10
sh10
shell10
full-text-search10
zsh10
automation9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
Casecommons/pg_search
Nov 2010 - Dec 2022
pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 723 commits, 114 PRs in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to the `pg_search` library by adding new features and enhancing existing ones related to full-text search functionality within PostgreSQL. Their commits demonstrate the ability to expand the library's capabilities, adding support for features like trigrams, prefix searching, accent mark removal, and case-insensitive searching. These improvements included refactoring existing code, altering scope signatures, and incorporating new methods to improve the quality of search results.
pg-searchtrigramsscopesfull-text-searchtsearch
nertzy/writing
Sep 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
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