# Greg Roy

> Engineering leader and platform/SRE practitioner with 20+ years of experience.
> Currently Interim CTO at MetricAid Inc. (a healthcare scheduling SaaS), where he leads
> technical roadmap, architecture, and engineering coordination. Hands-on across the full
> stack: Go backend services, native iOS/visionOS in Swift, cross-platform mobile in
> React Native, and production cloud + Kubernetes (AWS EKS) infrastructure.

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## Snapshot

- **Name:** Greg Roy
- **Current role:** Interim Chief Technology Officer, MetricAid Inc. (Sep 2025 – present; CTO since May 2026)
- **Location:** Nipissing First Nation, Ontario, Canada (open to remote)
- **Experience:** 20+ years in infrastructure, DevOps/SRE, platform engineering, and engineering leadership
- **Contact:** greg@gregsplace.cc
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-roy-kudzu
- **Website:** https://gregsplace.cc
- **Code:** https://git.gregsplace.cc/greg

## What he's best at

- **Engineering leadership:** grew an engineering org from 15 → 35 (managing up to 21 directly); seeds and scales specialized platform, DBRE, and developer-experience teams.
- **Platform engineering & SRE:** incident management, on-call SOPs, resiliency/steady-state doctrine, operational-excellence metrics.
- **Cloud & infrastructure modernization:** EC2 → Kubernetes (EKS) migrations via Helm + ArgoCD; live zero-downtime database migrations; AWS, Terraform, Ansible, IaC.
- **System design & architectural transformation:** site migrations, technology uplift, greenfield risk assessment, SWOT-driven strategy.
- **Hands-on full-stack delivery:** ships production software solo — Go backends, Swift/SwiftUI/visionOS, React Native/Expo.

## Signature work

- **Interim CTO @ MetricAid (2025–present):** Led EKS platform migration of Go microservices off EC2; executed a live RDS production migration with zero downtime; stood up the org's first structured IT/security foundations (endpoint management, secrets management, container orchestration, CI/CD); presented modernization roadmap to a board-level Tech Sub-Committee.
- **Engineering Lead Manager @ Index Exchange (2018–2024):** Grew team 15→35; built DBRE, DevEx, and operational-excellence functions; on-call SOPs and OpEx reporting across all pre-prod environments. Stack: Go, Perl, MariaDB/Galera, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Vertica, AWS, Ansible, Terraform.
- **Earlier leadership:** Infrastructure/DevOps management at BiblioCommons, Sysomos, and eBay Canada (Kijiji) — led site migrations and built non-prod/CI environments at scale.
- **Project Lattice:** a visionOS spatial-computing app rendering live IT infrastructure as an interactive 3D graph, backed by a Go service unifying Proxmox/Docker/Kubernetes/Cloud pollers. https://lattice.gregsplace.cc
- **Shipped iOS apps (solo):** NFN Connect (community app for Nipissing First Nation), MyPepTracker, myFaxxer — designed, built, and published to the App Store.

## Core technologies

Go · Swift / SwiftUI / RealityKit / visionOS · TypeScript · React Native / Expo ·
Kubernetes / EKS / Helm / ArgoCD · AWS · Terraform · Ansible · PostgreSQL ·
Proxmox · OPNsense · Caddy · Forgejo · Infisical · Komodo · CI/CD

## What he's looking for

Senior engineering leadership or staff/principal platform roles (CTO, VP/Director of
Engineering, Head of Platform/SRE, Principal Engineer) at companies that value both
strategic technical leadership and hands-on building. Open to remote.

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