Summary
Grayson Manley is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building maintainable, customer-focused web applications and services across Ruby, Rails, C#, and cloud infrastructure. He has led rewrites and API service designs for billing, enrollment, and address management systems, guiding teams through acquisitions and platform transitions to improve conversions and operational reliability. Comfortable across the stack, Grayson has moved services between languages (Ruby to C#) to enable collaboration and scalability while integrating third-party APIs for payments, analytics, and marketing. He’s a pragmatic mentor who emphasizes learning by inspecting source code and embedding observability into systems to surface real business signals. Based in the Greater Chicago area, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded architecture to turn messy requirements into polished, production-ready solutions.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer