Skylar Graika
CTO & Co-founder at Washington State University
Mukilteo, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSkylar Graika is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building practical, production-first AI and IoT systems that turn messy real-world signals into reliable operational intelligence. As CTO and co-founder of Patrol 6 he’s focused on bringing AI from demo to operating layer for private security—automating incident documentation, surfacing real-time execution insights, and creating feedback loops that improve response and accountability. Previously he co-founded Footmarks (an R/GA/Techstars connected-devices alum) and held progressive engineering leadership roles at Smartsheet where he drove platform and infrastructure strategy across large-scale workflow and automation products. He pairs hands-on backend development (including contributions to ActiveRecord sharding tooling) with strategic governance as Co-Chair of WSU’s EECS Executive Council, bridging industry needs and engineering education. Known for prioritizing trust, verification, and clear ownership over hype, Skylar writes and builds around the tradeoffs of guided autonomy, prompting, and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Washington State University
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Github Skills (15)
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
sharding10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
git6
mongoose6
aggregation-framework6
chat6
mean-stack6
windows6
nodejs6
mongodb6
environment-variables6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
thiagopradi/octopus
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Database Sharding for ActiveRecord
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Skylar contributed to the `octopus` repository by modifying the `association_shard_tracking.rb` file, which likely handles database sharding for ActiveRecord associations. Their commits focused on fixing issues related to Rails 5.1, adapting code to support newer versions of Rails, and ensuring that options are correctly preserved during `has_and_belongs_to_many` associations. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining compatibility and refining the behavior of the sharding logic within the Rails environment. They also added a revert commit, implying a testing or debugging phase.
activerecorddatabaseshardingrubyruby-on-rails
10Kft/node-micro-services-template
May 2016 - Sep 2016
A directory structure for repos that contain multiple node micro services that operate on a shared data store(s)
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
microservices
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