Chase Gray

Experience

• Duranta Inc

  Fractioal Consultant

  Mar 2024 - Present

  Providing expert frontend hiring assistance by developing hiring exercises and evaluating candidates as Duranta finds its initial engineering team.

  • Frontend hiring pipeline for early stage startup
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  Currents Inc

  Advisor

  Jun 2023 - Dec 2023

  Assisted Currents by providing my automation and test tooling expertise to help them publish a whitepaper on managing test flakiness at scale.Assisted Currents by providing my automation and test tooling expertise to help them publish a whitepaper on managing test flakiness at scale.

  • Provided expert advise on test automation

• Favorably Inc

  Fractional CTO

  May 2022 - Feb 2023

  Provided technical direction for technology stack, hiring and managing of contractors, and the building of an initial MVP of the primary Favorably product.

  • Managed international development team in Uruguay
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  Aurora Solar

  Principal Engineer

  Mar 2019 - Feb 2024

  Played a critical role in scaling engineering team, culture, and tools from 5 to 100 over a 2 year period, from $50M valuation to $4B. Provided leadership and assistance for difficult cross team/org projects such as performance overhauls, product pivots, engineering hiring pipelines improvements, and agile process rollouts. Built and managed a critical developer productivity team managing releases, test automation, GraphQL, best practices, developer tooling, custom cloud CI/CD runners, and internal dashboards. Led and grew a frontend team in charge of a complete rewrite of Aurora’s frontend stack helping to grow revenue by 10x and eventually 10 different product teams. Built a custom SDK for use by enterprise clients, assisted with sales calls as an engineer, doubled company enterprise revenue. Built custom parallelization tooling for our test automation to run days worth of tests in minutes saving 10s of thousands of lost developer hours.

  • Built and Launched Aurora SDK helping to close largest enterprise clients
  • Built developer productivity team which led frontend architecture and developer tools
  • Advised leadership and engineering team on architecture
  • Architected and designed 2nd version of Aurora frontend
  • Assisted with rolling out new team structure and agile processes
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  Dronedeploy

  Lead Frontend Engineer

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2018

  Built and helped design the DroneDeploy AngularJS application, eventually ported to Angular 2, which was also used as the mobile web and hybrid mobile UI for flying drones and analyzing map data through our custom leafletJS and native google maps implementation. Developed a hiring plan to build the frontend team from myself to more than 15 engineers. Led and managed the mobile team which focused on supporting new DJI drones and live testing UI and native changes on all of our supported drones on the first mobile app for flying and mapping. Improved the load time of the DroneDeploy app 400% through frontend performance optimizations.

  • Build first mobile flight app for mapping
  • Built and led frontend team and culture
  • Founding engineer
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  Google

  Software Engineer

  Jul 2012 - Apr 2014

  Helped integrate Wildfire Interactive's products into Google's social media and ads products after acquisition.

  • Integrate acquired product into Google's systems
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  National Security Agency

  Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst

  Apr 2008 - Jul 2008

  Successfully passed an NSA special background investigation and polygraph. Resulted in clearance to work with TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmented Information. Primarily responsible for conducting research and developing prototype tools for computer network exploitation. Took a project from initial ideas and goals to a demonstrable prototype that is to be used as the basis for a new effort in a new agency division.

  • Awarded NSA Star Award
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  Myhealthcaresource.com

  Owner and Lead Developer

  Dec 2007 - Nov 2012

  I am the founder of Ratchet Software LLC. The company specializes in aggregating hard to access healthcare data into a single source and provides simple unified interfaces to access that data. The public application is located at http://www.myhealthcaresource.com We do all of our data processing and web applications in Ruby and Rails. I am the Co-Owner and am responsible for day to day running of the company as well as major development tasks. I also obtain and parse new data sets to increase the quality of our database of healthcare financial data. The company was bootstrapped and has been profitable from the first few months. After the first year we had much more data and many offers for custom interfaces to our public data as well as extra analysis per the client's request. We now have large ($100K+) multi-year contracts for custom data and a growing number of standard users on the public facing site http://www.myhealthcaresource.com In the future we hope to increase the data we offer and potentially move into the more competitive market of hospital data.

  • Bootstrapped successful company