Jason Grey

Email: jason@jason-grey.com
Web: www.jason-grey.com
Phone: (612) 229-6559
Location: Edina, MN, USA

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A lifelong technologist with 40+ years of software enginnering experience and 30+ years of professional consulting. From writing code at age 6 to architecting distributed systems for public companies, I bring a rare, full-spectrum perspective on the evolution of technology—from bare metal to global-scale AI.

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  • Strategic Bridge: Skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders—legal, finance, marketing, UX, and product—with engineering goals.
  • Executive Leadership: 25+ years of experience managing teams ranging from 1 to 250+ people.
  • Mentorship-Driven Culture: Focused on building high-performing teams through technical mentorship and a collaborative leadership style.
  • Boardroom Presence: Expert at communicating complex technical roadmaps to Boards of Directors or simplifying concepts on a whiteboard for engineers.
  • Public Advocacy: Experienced speaker at global conferences and workshops.
  • Hacker Mindset: A relentless, hands-on approach to problem-solving, rooted in four decades of software exploration and hardware experimentation.

30+ years of providing strategic technical guidance to clients ranging from seed-stage startups to the Fortune 500.

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  • Core Expertise: AI/ML (20+ years), Distributed Systems, GIS, Computer Vision, Computational Linguistics, Enterprise Architecture.
  • Data & Cloud: 10PB+ Dataset Processing, Spark/Hadoop, Airflow, Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI/Fabric, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
  • Languages & Stack: Python, Rust, Go, C#, Java, SQL (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch), RabbitMQ, Solr.
  • Platforms: Salesforce, HubSpot, Odoo, Magento, Twilio, SendGrid, and coutless others.

Extensive experience navigating the full lifecycle of technology—from early-stage betas to global-scale maturity.

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Kagi.com (consulting) Link to heading

June 2025 - Present

  • Team lead for top company priority: AI Context layer + Internal Search Index

CTO at Warecorp Link to heading

Jan 2017 – Oct 2025

  • Led projects for diverse clients, from NVIDIA to startups, as the CTO for Warecorp Holdings family of companies
  • Developed and productized offerings like EasyLake and Warecorp Connector, driving sales growth for Warecorp
  • Collaborated with teams to innovate and deliver cutting-edge technology solutions for clients

Sr. Engineer at Common Crawl Foundation (1 year contract) Link to heading

Feb 2024 - Mar 2025

  • Developed and optimized large scale Sprk jobs to process 9PB+ of data, re-tooling legacy python mrjob tasks into modern Spark jobs
  • Orchestrated Spark jobs with Airflow for efficient data processing and validation
  • Refactored index server to use modern devops techniques, and improved documentation and automation of rate limiting and acl management

Sr. Vice President, Chief of Technology at Life Time Fitness Link to heading

Jan 2012 - Aug 2015

  • Consolidated and optimized 250 person IT/Tech teams, and focused on customer experience
  • Modernized and established formal data warehousing, enterprise architecture, and portfolio management practices
  • Lead innoviation in numerous technical and business areas, in collaboration with Apple, Microsoft, and others

Other companies of note I’ve worked for or with: Target (ecom and innovation groups), Nike, 5/3 Bank, United Health Group, Kenneth Cole, and Bauer Hockey. Full history on my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongrey/

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