GridTrace is built by someone who has lived with the problem. Dylan Warburg is a GIS engineer with over a decade of experience designing, building, and debugging utility GIS systems for some of the largest electric utilities in the United States — including Duke Energy, Liberty Utilities, and consulting for Southern California Edison.

Working daily with ArcGIS Utility Network as a Lead GIS Developer, Dylan developed a first-hand understanding of where the platform falls short: multi-year migrations, opaque propagation logic, topology rebuilds that block operations, and a lock-in model that ties utilities to a single vendor's release cycle. GridTrace is the platform he wished existed — built graph-first, with propagation logic that lives in readable SQL, on infrastructure the utility controls.

Dylan holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Colorado and certifications in both AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure. He is an ArcGIS Utility Network Associate — meaning he understands exactly what GridTrace is competing with, at a certified technical level. He brings deep experience in Python, SQL, C#, and Node.js applied to real-world GIS data pipelines and outage management system integrations.