Joe Gaska
CEO And CoFounder at GRAX (Acquired by AscendX)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Gaska is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with over two decades of experience founding, scaling, and exiting SaaS and IoT companies from early-stage product-market fit through acquisition. He bootstrapped GRAX to profitability, raised Series A capital, and delivered enterprise deployments across Global 100 customers, reflecting a rare mix of scrappy operator and institutional CEO. Previously he founded Ionia, grew it to 300+ customers with >95% retention before its acquisition, and led dramatic team and revenue scaling at Xively post-acquisition. Joe combines deep technical roots—BA in Math/Computer Science—with hands-on product and architecture experience dating back to building SaaS offerings in the late 1990s. He’s known for driving 100%+ YoY growth, 1200% team expansions while keeping retention high, and treating backup and IoT data as strategic business assets. A Cape Cod native and family man, he’s equally energized by the art of building early-stage teams as by navigating complex integrations during exits.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Math/Computer Science, Math and Computer Sciences, BA Math/Computer Science, Math and Computer Sciences at University of Maine at Farmington
Github Skills (17)
node-red10
sftp10
ftp9
office-js8
office-addin7
salesforce7
netscaler5
cdn5
javascript-api4
sensu3
validation-rules3
apex-trigger3
ftp-client2
apex2
herokuapp1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gaskaj/node-red-contrib-ftp-sftp
Jul 2017 - May 2022
SFTP Client for Node Red public extension
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 years 10 months
node-redsftpftp
graxinc/grax-salesforce-embedded
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
GRAX for Salesforce Embedded
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 26 PRs in 1 month
salesforce
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