Summary
Matthew Gray is a veteran technology leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of formal industry experience and a lifelong devotion to computing that traces back to programming a Commodore 64 at age four. As Co-Founder and CTO of Nandeshou and long-time CTO of Hat Boy Software, he blends hands-on embedded and firmware work with cloud-native architecture, SRE, and ML/LLM integration across diverse platforms. He has repeatedly delivered solutions spanning low-level hardware and real-time systems to large-scale Kubernetes, Terraform, and hybrid cloud deployments, and brings practical experience in blockchain, game engine development, and IoT. Known for bridging hardware and software silos, he thrives on complex control-system design, simulation, and production pipeline automation. Based in Oxford, Mississippi, he pairs an MS in Electrical Engineering with a curious, perpetual-learning mindset and a track record of adapting legacy systems into modern, maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Horn Lake High School
M.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering at Mississippi State University