Ray Gauss
Head Of Engineering And Technology (Associate Director)
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRay Gauss is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native products and modernizing engineering practices across commercial and government sectors. Currently Head of Engineering and Technology at the Space Telescope Science Institute, he drives strategic roadmaps that align cross-mission teams, scalability, and operational efficiency for NASA stakeholders. He has deep hands-on platform and integration expertise—architecting containerized deployments, microservice frameworks, identity solutions, and content transformation systems—while fostering reusable, product-minded engineering cultures. A long-time open source contributor and Apache Tika PMC member, Ray blends standards work with practical delivery, having released OSCAL-related open projects and led guild programs to spread best practices. Based in Annapolis, he balances technical leadership with a collaborative, customer-focused approach and a knack for translating complex mission needs into pragmatic engineering roadmaps. Outside work he’s a father, musician, and avid home chef and brewer, reflecting a creative, maker mindset that informs both leadership and engineering.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Astrophysics (Physics Computer Science), Bachelors Astrophysics (Physics Computer Science) at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (105)
ui-components10
low-level10
alfresco10
react-component10
javascript9
yaml9
rest9
helm9
messaging9
security9
maven-plugin9
code-generation9
rest-api9
maven9
nist9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
EasyDynamics/oscal-rest
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
An initial OpenAPI definition of an OSCAL REST API.
Contributions:14 reviews, 77 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
openapirestrest-apioscal
AlfrescoLabs/tika-ffmpeg
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 months
command-line-toolapache-tikaapacheextract-metadataaudio
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