Jay Graber
CEO at Bluesky Social
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Graber is a product-minded engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building privacy-minded and decentralized social systems, currently serving as CEO of Bluesky where he’s steering development of the AT Protocol to give creators and developers more control. He began his career in cryptography-adjacent engineering at Zcash and supply-chain cryptography at Skuchain, then founded Happening, a social events network, before taking on Bluesky’s mission to rethink social architecture. Jay blends hands-on backend work—contributing integrations and API enhancements to collaborative open-source projects like Loomio—with strategic product leadership, and he’s motivated by making social platforms more experimental and user-respecting. Based in Seattle, he pairs a Science, Technology & Society BS from Penn with practical engineering training from Dev Bootcamp, bringing both technical depth and a civic-minded perspective to platform design.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Dev BootcampBachelor of Science (B.S.) Science Technology & Society, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Science Technology & Society at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
rails10
api10
apidoc10
ruby-on-rails10
webhooks10
slack-integration9
activerecord9
rspec7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
loomio/loomio
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Loomio is a collaborative decision making tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 16 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Loomio application. Their work involved creating Slack webhook integrations for new vote notifications, modifying core models for webhooks, and enhancing the API's vote controller. These changes included modifications to serializers, and integration points for various components.
decision-makingcollaborativedecision
arcalinea/bridge
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
parse social media data
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
parsesocial-media
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