Grant Fraley

Full-stack Engineer • Data Analyst • Denver, CO, US

Amazon Web Services

Python

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

SQL

NoSQL

AWS Amplify

Available for hire fromNegotiable

Contracts

Full-Time Roles

I'm a veteran software engineering leader who provides Web App development and Data Engineering consultancy services.

Versatile software engineering leader and Masters in Geographic Information Science (GIS) with 15+ years of experience building and managing successful teams on complex projects. Experience shipping production cloud services for petabyte-scale data pipelines and low-latency artificial intelligence. Known for broad based technical knowledge including full-stack development, geospatial technology, and financial technology.

Projects

Data Engineering Pipelines with Python and BigQuery

Built data engineering pipelines, empowering an Analyst team to deliver insights to executives and analysts at Fortune 100 media and FAANG companies.See More

Cloud Infrastructure Design for Petabyte-Scale Data Pipelines

This project involved hands-on work and managing a distributed team of 15 engineers to develop customer-facing APIs for image processing and AI. This includes planning program backlogs and roadmaps, communicating with senior leadership, delivering high-quality user experiences, and architecting API services with high throughput.See More

AI Platform for FinTech Analytics

In this project I built a web application using React, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, AWS Amplify, and AWS Lambda, and then grew the UX team. I managed a team of engineers, mentored early-career software engineers in a remote-first environment, and contributed to source code and code review daily. I also designed and implemented a serverless data platform (Python, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Neo4j, NLP) on AWS that ingests data about companies on-demand into a graph database, runs AI and analytics on the graph, and presents analysis and filtering tools in the web app.See More

Work History

Director of Software Engineering

Crosslink AIFeb 2022 - Mar 2023 • 1 yr 2 mosBuilt the web application using React, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, AWS Amplify, and AWS Lambda and then grew the User Experience development team. Manage a team of engineers, and contribute daily to source code and code review. Mentored early-career software engineers in a remote-first environment. Design and lead implementation of the serverless data platform (Python, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Neo4j, NLP) on AWS that ingests data about companies on-demand into a graph database, runs AI (NLP) and analytics on the graph, and presents analysis and filtering tools in the web application.

Director, Data Engineering

AntennaMay 2021 - Sep 2021 • 5 mosLed the adoption of Agile / Scrum in the Data Engineering and Data Science teams. Developed and iterated on an engineering roadmap, rooted in the strategic roadmap of the company, balancing technical debt with aggressive product and feature delivery. Mentored direct reports, established a growth plan, and doubled the team in a single quarter. Led data platform design and implementation on Google Cloud Platform (Spark / Dataproc, Airflow / Cloud Composer, BigQuery), and Looker to empower an internal Analyst team to deliver insights for strategic decision-making by customers, including executives at Fortune 100 media companies and analyst teams at FAANG companies.

Software Engineering Manager

Vexcel ImagingSep 2019 - May 2021 • 1 yr 9 mosRecruit, train and mentor distributed engineering teams totaling 15 engineers for customer-facing web applications (React, Angular) and low-latency APIs for image processing and artificial intelligence (AWS Lambda, CloudFront, Fargate, Aurora, NoSQL). Plan program backlogs and strategic roadmaps for cross-functional teams, communicating regularly with senior leadership (CEO, CTO, SVP Engineering). Deliver high quality user experiences to thousands of customers and architect API services with thousands of requests per second throughput.

Lead Cloud Engineer

Vexcel ImagingApr 2018 - Sep 2019 • 1 yr 6 mosDesigned and developed imagery data pipelines in Python with high throughput delivery from data-center storage to cloud object-storage. Scaled the pipeline to handle 100s of Terabytes daily. Grew the engineering team from 1 to 20 members, and lead development of our AWS-hosted cloud computing platform. Architected on-call PagerDuty systems, service runbooks, and correction of error posture. Led development of our DevOps practices, GitHub workflows, and containerized CI/CD with Jenkins and Kubernetes.

CTO

Ibex AegisApr 2017 - Mar 2018 • 1 yrBuilt a team of engineers and a data scientists to deliver an artificial intelligence platform for precision agriculture. Scaled a data pipeline for daily image processing in the cloud, implementing GPU routines in C++ for Structure from Motion and Multi-View Stereo algorithms. Researched and developed algorithms for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for pose estimation to integrate aerial imagery from drones with a mobile mapping application.

Research Programmer / Analyst IV

University of California, San DiegoAug 2013 - Jun 2017 • 3 yrs 11 mosManaged development of a private-cloud, HIPAA compliant, API for statistical analysis of Terabyte-scale GPS and inertial movement data in Python. Led development of a web application for labeling images, training models, and displaying iterative results from machine learning of physical activity. Mentored student software development interns, including teaching software industry practices, Agile development methods, and preparation for career opportunities.

Education

San Diego State University

Graduate Degree, GeographyAug 2007 - Dec 2009

University of Idaho

Bachelor's Degree, Geography, Computer ScienceAug 2004 - Dec 2006

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