Summary
Grayson Hansard is a multidisciplinary founding engineer and former engineering director with 10 years of professional experience building and scaling production-grade web and multi-platform applications from infrastructure to UI. Based in Durham, NC, he excels at architecting reliable frontend stacks (Next.js/Tailwind), codifying infrastructure with AWS CDK, and establishing CI/CD, security posture, and data pipelines that let small teams move fast. He has led and grown engineering teams at WillowTree and Bitrise, balancing people management with deep technical contributions and open-source-minded craftsmanship rooted in an old-school Mac developer sensibility. Comfortable in compiled languages and cross-platform systems, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance, correctness, and reproducible operations—plus a knack for documenting and institutionalizing engineering practices that outlive individual contributors.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Div, Master of Div at Yale Div
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology at Vanderbilt University
Master of Divinity - MDiv, Master of Divinity - MDiv at Yale Divinity School
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English