Ross Grady
Senior Manager, Developer Tooling, IBM CIO Developer Experience
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRoss Grady is a seasoned technology leader who has spent 30+ years in IT and currently leads developer tooling for IBM’s 65,000 software developers as Senior Manager, Developer Tooling for IBM CIO Developer Experience. He builds and runs the platform of productivity tools—GitHub, Jira, Travis CI, BrowserStack, PagerDuty and more—translating large-scale developer needs into reliable, user-focused services. Prior roles include managing IBM’s Extreme Blue incubator, where he recruited and mentored top intern talent, ran dozens of rapid-prototype teams, and managed a million-dollar lab budget, demonstrating strength in people development and program scaling. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs deep operational experience with an English degree background that surfaces in clear communication and bias-aware interviewing practices to improve diversity and hiring outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, English at North Carolina State UniversityBA, English, Art, BA, English, Art at Rice UniversityGovernor's School for the ArtsGreenville Fine Arts Center
Github Skills (74)
music10
squeezebox10
security9
perl9
python-twitter9
streaming9
id39
wav9
ape8
secrets8
parser8
m4a8
aiff8
expressjs8
flac8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rossgrady/slimserver
Sep 2016 - Sep 2020
Server for Logitech Squeezebox players. This server is also called Logitech Media Server
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
playerslogitechlogitech-media-serverserversqueezebox
508-loop-detected/ec500
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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