Rick Gray

Senior Software Engineer

Education

MSc in Data Science

University of Texas at Austin
3.70
2023

BSc in Computer Science

University of Houston
3.65, Cum Laude
2017

Other Interests

  • Music
  • Games
  • Vespas
  • Woodworking
  • Ant farms
  • VR

About Me

I spend most of my time enjoying technology and learning. When I was young, I enjoyed following the video game hacking scene. I used to mod video game consoles in high school for friends for extra money. I still keep up with it somewhat and enjoy breaking out the soldering iron periodically. I spent my early college years as a PC repair tech for local repair shops and learned invaluable skills in hardware. During my college class on Artificial Intelligence, I trained an evolutionary (NEAT) model to play through the first level of Super Mario World. I also acquired a love for servers, networking, and infrastructure; I maintain my own lab where I virtualize personal things like this website on my second-hand, Google branded Dell R720XD.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2023 — Present
DriveCentric, LLC. — Remote

• Developer on inventory and appraisal integration team
• Lead developer on Angular user interface for inventory management
• Contributed to architecture and migration of dynamic inventory processing system

Software Engineer II

Oct 2019 — Jul 2022
InEight, Inc — Remote

• Developer of .NET Core/Angular 12 project management and scheduling app
• Developed for conversion from Angularjs to Angular 12 and Framework 4.7 to Core
• Lead development and implementation of real-time communication system (SignalR)
• Lead planning and execution phase of Azure Cosmos DB implementation

Software Engineer

Oct 2018 — Oct 2019
RLI Corp — Houston

• Developer of internal .NET/MVC web API with CI/CD
• Developer of internal MVVM UI with .NET and TypeScript
• Used Agile methodology with daily scrums

Software Engineer

Jun 2017 — Oct 2018
Capgemini — Houston

• Developed and tested features in EZTag mobile apps using MVVM
• Developed and tested .NET Core API endpoints with Entity Framework 6
• Developed, normalized and tested MS SQL Database for app features
• Architected Full stack for features in mobile app
• App pushed to prod and used by an estimated 2.8 million users

Technology Analyst

Jun 2015 — Aug 2016
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. — Houston

• Saved the company $5.6 million annually through onboarding automation
• Automated ticket and communications for help desk team
• Manually decommissioned over 75 Windows/Linux servers

Projects

Here are some various projects I have worked on in the past. It is not complete and am adding more with time.

8-bit Programmable Computer — The goal of this project is to build an entire working computer purely from transistors. There is no microprocessor here; only integrated circuits of various logic gates and combinations of them. It employs a simple 8-bit adder with negation on one register allowing for subtraction and negative numbers, and has 8-bit memory with 4-bit addressing. This is 74LS tech which is roughly what put man on the moon.
Personal Networking & Infrastructure — This thing consumes lots of my free time. I run my home routing (pfSense), this webserver, a NAS (FreeNAS), a voip server (TeamSpeak), a game server, a Mac OSX instance for remote development, and an instance of Win 10 on my hypervisor (ESXi).
Personal Website — You're looking at it! I'm consistently adding to it and improving it. From this webserver I also run a cloud solution (Nextcloud) and a remote-from-browser solution (Apache Guacamole).

Proficiencies

.NET/C#

TypeScript

Entity Framework 6/Core

Azure

Xamarin

Microsoft SQL Server

VS/TFS/ADO

Humor