James Gray
Owner at Gray Productions Software Inc.
Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Gray is a seasoned software entrepreneur and owner of Gray Productions Software Inc. with 21 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend systems and developer tools. Based in Edmond, Oklahoma, he has a strong open-source track record contributing to projects across Ruby and Elixir ecosystems, including enhancements to a Slack RTM client and improvements to log parsing and CLI libraries. His work emphasizes robustness and developer experience—adding parsing flexibility, test coverage, ANSI support, and user-friendly helpers for messaging and channel management. Comfortable spanning full-stack needs, he pairs practical engineering with a focus on maintainability and thoughtful integration. An understated strength is his knack for improving developer-facing tooling that quietly boosts productivity across teams.
21 years of coding experience
Github Skills (29)
apim10
slack-api10
software-design10
messaging10
elixir10
testing10
command-line-interface10
message-system10
ruby10
message-handler10
api10
command-line10
message-bus10
messagebox10
teste9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JEG2/highline
Apr 2005 - Dec 2015
A higher level command-line oriented interface.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:326 commits, 19 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:James's commits primarily involve implementing and testing features for a command-line-oriented interface. They developed a test suite for the `highline` library, demonstrating a focus on testing and code correctness. The contributions include the addition of ANSI color support, ERb integration, and features such as menus and character limits, indicating enhancements to the library's core functionality and user experience. The user's work involved improvements to the test suite, demonstrating a commitment to code quality.
command-line
BlakeWilliams/Elixir-Slack
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Slack real time messaging and web API client in Elixir
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the Elixir-based Slack client by implementing features related to direct messaging and channel interaction. They added the ability to send messages to channels using their names, and implemented helper functions to lookup user and channel IDs. They also introduced support for initiating direct message channels and updating the internal state to reflect these new channels. This work improved the client's usability and extended its functionality within the Slack ecosystem.
elixirslackelixir-slackbotrtm
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