Jim Ray
Client-Facing Field CTO at IBM
West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Ray is a client-facing Field CTO with nine years of focused experience architecting and operationalizing cloud, hybrid, and distributed systems for highly regulated financial services. He builds and scales cross-functional teams and programs, blending systems thinking with a bias for action to deliver practical, auditable outcomes across IBM, RedHat, and HashiCorp portfolios. Jim specializes in enabling DevSecOps and modern application architectures in complex brownfield environments to accelerate enterprise AI and hybrid cloud adoption. He has repeatedly led high-impact GTM and engineering teams—designing opinionated, "art of the practical" stacks and serving as a surge resource for multi-product, regulated engagements. Known for mentoring technical talent and instilling culture, he pairs hands-on technical depth with sales and program leadership to de-risk large transformations. Based in West Chester, PA, he brings uncommon public-sector-to-enterprise continuity, having designed and run mission-critical infrastructure and compliance programs before transitioning to strategic technical sales and field CTO roles.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Business Administration and Management, Associates, Business Administration and Management at American InterContinental University
Github Skills (8)
hashicorp-vault10
hashicorp10
secrets10
terraform10
vault10
go8
encryption8
access-management7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raygj/vault-content
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:337 commits, 300 pushes in 2 years 2 months
raygj/terraform-content
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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