Grayson Hicks
Customer Engineer at Mastra
Covington, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolGrayson Hicks is a seasoned customer engineer and front-end specialist with 10 years of experience building performant web experiences and developer-facing tools. He has held senior and staff engineering roles at Gatsby and Netlify, led front-end teams at Manufactured, and now applies that product-and-customer-oriented lens at Mastra. An active open-source contributor, Grayson has made notable contributions to the popular Gatsby framework—improving examples, OAuth integrations, and core fixes that affect page performance and error handling. Based in Covington, Louisiana, he blends hands-on full-stack development with customer-facing engineering, translating real-world feedback into concrete platform improvements. Unusually for an engineer with his trajectory, his academic background in international studies informs a systems-minded approach to cross-team communication and feature prioritization.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient International Relations and Affairs, International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient International Relations and Affairs at A.C. Flora High SchoolBachelor of the Arts International Studies/Environment & Development, Bachelor of the Arts International Studies/Environment & Development at Louisiana State UniversityMcCallie School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
react10
gatsby10
wpgraphql9
static-site-generator9
webapp9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
compiler-compiler8
nodejs8
compiler8
google-oauth7
redux7
wordpress7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 16 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Grayson primarily contributed to the Gatsby framework, focusing on example projects and core framework enhancements. Their work includes adding and modifying example projects using technologies like loadable components, Google OAuth, and Redux. They also implemented fixes and features in the core Gatsby code, like reordering head tags and handling 401 errors in the WordPress source plugin.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
graysonhicks/parkary
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:131 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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