Summary
Josh Gray is a seasoned infrastructure and systems engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale hybrid and cloud-native platforms, and he now leads Valigator as founder. His career spans hands-on roles at Google, TIAA, Pivotal/VMware and enterprise ISVs, where he focused on automation, bare-metal provisioning, and self-service hybrid-cloud platforms using Python, Bash, Ansible and CI/CD tooling. Josh blends deep operational experience—running production bare-metal and virtualized environments—with content and enablement work, having created training labs and field-facing collateral for global teams. He treats staking and platform features as long-lived infrastructure rather than transient yield products, reflecting a pragmatic, reliability-first mindset. Based in Louisville, Colorado, he combines systems engineering rigor (MS in Systems Engineering) with a founder’s appetite for productizing infrastructure. An uncommon strength is his track record of moving low-level hardware automation into consumable enterprise services, bridging ops, automation and developer enablement.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Systems Engineering, Master of Science in Systems Engineering at Regis University
University of Missouri