Michael Gray
Principal Engineer at Ambi Robotics
Dublin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gray is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building distributed systems, container platforms, and edge-native software from startup prototypes to production at scale. He has led engineering and technical strategy as CTO/VP at NuBix and currently drives product and architecture at Ambi Robotics, combining deep systems-level Go expertise with hands-on work across cloud, Kubernetes, and embedded IoT stacks. Michael has substantial open-source contributions, including core backend work on the versioned Noms database and macOS adaptations for the Singularity/Apptainer container project, reflecting a knack for portability and data-sync challenges. He pairs product leadership with practical ops know-how—deploying container services to air-gapped HPC environments and automating remote builds—while also running a long-standing real-estate venture, showing entrepreneurial breadth beyond engineering.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Franklin UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The Ohio State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cambridge High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
container10
data-storage10
go10
encoding10
encode10
macos10
cloud-native10
cli10
protocol-buffers9
data-structure9
build-time9
algorithm9
buildx9
algorithms9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
attic-labs/noms
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
The versioned, forkable, syncable database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 90 PRs, 40 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on implementing core features and utilities within the Noms project. They focused on adding features such as file size progress output, format-file-size improvements, unique key verification, and a counter-js example client. They also contributed to removing unused number types and improving the encoding of numbers. These contributions demonstrate an understanding of the project's data storage and manipulation logic.
relational-databaseversioneddatabasedatabases
apptainer/singularity
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Singularity has been renamed to Apptainer as part of us moving the project to the Linux Foundation. This repo has been persisted as a snapshot right before the changes.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 29 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on adapting the Singularity container software for Darwin (macOS) platforms. This involved creating new CLI functionalities and modifying existing build, pull, and remote build processes to function correctly on macOS. The user also updated build configurations to support remote builds and added support for the 'name' flag. These changes indicate efforts to extend the software's compatibility and functionality.
renamedapptainersciencerootless-containersdocker
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