Walter Grata
Staff Software Engineer at GEICO
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Grata is a Seattle-based Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building backend systems, infrastructure, and developer tooling across companies from startups to large enterprises. He has held senior engineering and leadership roles at Indeed, AWS, Hulu, Upbound, and now GEICO, shipping resilient, production-grade services and mentoring teams through architecture and delivery challenges. His open-source contributions include backend and DevOps work on the ADL Learning Record Store, where he integrated databases, wrote deployment scripts, and improved models to enable reliable sync and admin tooling. Known for principled career choices and clear ethical stances, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong convictions about the organizations he joins.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
English
Github Skills (9)
fabric10
python10
mysql10
django10
database-design9
api8
gunicorn8
apim8
api-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adlnet/ADL_LRS
Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
ADL's Open Source Learning Record Store (LRS) is used to store learning data collected with the Experience API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Walter primarily contributed to setting up and configuring the back-end infrastructure and database for the Learning Record Store (LRS). They modified settings files to integrate a MySQL database, installed necessary dependencies with fabric and python modules, and added scripts to install them. The user also added initial models for the LRS and updated URLs to allow admin pages to work with the gunicorn server. Later they updated the models with relationships and corrected issues to allow syncdb to work.
apilearning-record-storeexperience-apixapiadl
adlnet/LR-Search
Sep 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:70 commits in 8 months
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