Ryan Gray
Vice President Of Technology at Zippy
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Gray is a seasoned technology leader with a decade of hands-on experience building distributed, cloud-native systems and leading engineering organizations from senior IC to VP roles. Based in Chicago, he has scaled teams and platforms at companies like Guaranteed Rate, Splash, and now Zippy, often working with Clojure/ClojureScript backends and Reagent/Re-frame frontends in microservice architectures on AWS and Kubernetes. He combines product-focused leadership with deep engineering craft—mentoring teams, setting frontend and backend architecture, and shipping reliable workflow automation and prioritization systems. Ryan’s background also includes entrepreneurship and creative roles in web design, branding, and multimedia, which inform his pragmatic product sensibility and user-centered approach. Known as a functional programming enthusiast, he brings an uncommon mix of business-facing collaboration and low-level technical judgment to help organizations move quickly without sacrificing long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
International Business Certificate l'Escola Superior de Comerc Internacional (ESCI), International Business Certificate l'Escola Superior de Comerc Internacional (ESCI) at Universitat Pompeu FabraBachelor of Science Management, Bachelor of Science Management at The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration
English, Spanish, Italian, German
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Github Skills (45)
javascript-tools10
duplicate-detection10
dry10
static-analysis9
nodejs9
babashka8
javascript8
clojure-spec7
compojure7
ring7
jenkins6
migrate6
jenkins-plugin6
clojure6
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rdgd/birdie
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 months
birdmigrationsdatabasemigrationlibrary-migration
rdgd/twly
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Wanna get DRY? Static analysis tool for detecting repeat code.
Contributions:2 reviews, 114 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
static-analysisduplicate-detectionjavascriptjavascript-toolsnodejs
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