About

Ace Gayhart is the Manager of Software Engineering on the Asset Monitoring team at SmartSense by Digi, where he leads work on IoT sensor monitoring and predictive analytics for customers in healthcare, retail grocery, food service, education, and supply chain. He fell in love with code at eleven, on a Commodore 64, and has been at it ever since. The road from there ran through wireless billing, manufacturing, and higher education IT before landing on IoT, with C# becoming his language of choice along the way.

Teaching has been the parallel thread. Ace serves as an adjunct instructor at Southern New Hampshire University, where he teaches in the undergraduate and graduate IT programs. He holds a Master of Science in Information Systems and Technology Management from Capella University and a Bachelor of Science from Kaplan University.

This blog is where those threads meet. Posts come from four angles: the engineering manager working through team dynamics and developer experience, the software engineer wrestling with tools and architecture, the teacher who is still very much a learner, and the person at home in Northeast Ohio with his wife Rachel. The strongest posts usually live where two of those overlap. New writing appears roughly every week or two.

The views expressed here are Ace’s own and do not represent his employer or any institution he is associated with. For more, see the disclaimer.