Joe Gross
Investor Advisor at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Gross is an experienced infrastructure and engineering leader with 25+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling consumer-facing systems, from early YouTube and Dropbox to leadership roles at Docker, Reddit, and Rigetti. Now advising startups, he combines ruthless pragmatism and minimalist design with a talent for recruiting and growing diverse, resilient teams that accelerate product and infrastructure velocity. Joe's rare mix of deep SRE pedigree and product-oriented infrastructure work includes first-in-company engineering roles and running quantum cloud operations, demonstrating comfort across bleeding-edge and hyper-scale environments. Known for evolving chaotic systems toward order, he emphasizes simple, iteratable solutions and people-first leadership that turns technical capability into measurable business outcomes. An avid connector and “interweb wrangler” based in San Francisco, he also brings compliance and security experience (SOX, NIST) often overlooked in fast-moving engineering orgs.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (60)
platformio10
docker10
python10
rp204010
mqtt10
graph10
esp826610
iot10
yaml10
esp3210
home-assistant10
home-automation10
esphome10
ecosystem9
signal-processing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
joegross/ansible-pi
Jul 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
joegross/dotfiles
Jul 2014 - Feb 2022
Contributions:315 commits, 1 PR, 223 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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