Kyle Grare

I lead the engineering organization behind our enterprise monitoring platform, with responsibility for technical direction, hiring, and aligning delivery with the goals of the business. I manage the full software development lifecycle alongside product, drive the modernization of legacy systems, and have established stronger CI/CD practices. I have also introduced AI-assisted development with Claude and Cursor into the team's workflow, while remaining directly involved in the C++, SQL Server, and Python that power our data collection and alerting.

I contributed to Bloomberg's Asset & Investment Manager (AIM), the platform buy-side portfolio managers rely on for trade execution, risk management, and compliance. I built server-side C++ services and JavaScript front-ends on AIX and Solaris for instrument tracking, trade execution, and what-if modeling. I integrated Bloomberg data sources through Comdb2 and supported the platform's migration from legacy infrastructure toward Linux and virtualization.

I delivered four major releases of a virtual machine backup appliance for VMware, Citrix XenServer, and Hyper-V as part of a small, high-output Agile team, including direct customer engagement to resolve environment-specific issues. I designed a distributed architecture in C that separated the front end, PostgreSQL database, and data-protection engine across virtual machines, with RabbitMQ handling communication between them. I also built the VMware Changed Block Tracking wrapper responsible for scheduling, job lifecycle management, and dynamic container expansion.

Dual Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics, the foundation for how I approach systems and problem-solving.