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.
10 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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
codeclimate10
ring8
babashka8
semgrep8
code-analysis7
javascript7
static-analysis7
compojure7
static-analyzer7
bug-tracker6
jenkins-plugin6
clojure6
api6
github6
bitbucket6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rdgd/discord-bot-clj
Jan 2020 - Oct 2023
Library for developing bots for Discord in Clojure
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches, 8 tags in 3 years 9 months
developingdiscordbotdiscord-botbots
rdgd/birdie
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 months
birdmigrationsdatabasemigrationlibrary-migration
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