# Annabella Proctor

> Annabella Proctor is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Grayworth, where she leads the development of Gray, a commercial server language and runtime.

## Biography

Annabella Proctor is a technologist and entrepreneur based in Orange County, California. She is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Grayworth, where she leads the development of Gray, a commercial server language and runtime. Her earlier work crossed Java game development, community operations, project management, electrical fieldwork, and systems-infrastructure consulting. She studied business management through Saddleback College and Rutgers Business School and is pursuing computer science and engineering studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her current work focuses on making deeply integrated server systems direct to build, measure, and operate.

## Preferred identity

- Preferred name: Annabella Proctor
- Alternate name: Annabella Adair-Proctor
- Canonical person ID: https://annabellaproctor.com/#person
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0799-1757
- Current role: Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Grayworth
- Public location: Orange County, California, United States

## Current work

- **Gray** — A commercial server language and runtime integrating application code, native networking, PostgreSQL continuations, adaptive deployment, developer tooling, and native execution. https://grayworth.com/docs
- **Gray benchmark methodology** — A reproducible performance program covering corrected latency, saturation, long-duration stability, resource growth, database execution, and native backend behavior. https://grayworth.com/research
- **Grayworth** — A founder-led software company building commercial products and the high-performance systems behind them. https://grayworth.com/

## Sources

1. [Annabella Proctor at Grayworth](https://grayworth.com/people/annabella-proctor) — Current role, preferred name, alternate name, technical focus. Source class: First party.
2. [Rutgers University people directory record](https://search.rutgers.edu/people/AKmkUnozAOCVuCdzxO1kkw?q=annabella+proctor) — Institutional identity and affiliation. Source class: Institutional.
3. [ORCID 0009-0000-0799-1757](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0799-1757) — Identity disambiguation. Source class: Self-maintained identifier.
4. [Annabella Proctor on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabellaproctor/) — Professional chronology and education. Source class: Self-maintained profile.
5. [Annabella Proctor on GitHub](https://github.com/annabellaproctor) — Public technical identity. Source class: Platform-hosted record.
6. [Annabella Proctor on Wellfound](https://wellfound.com/u/annabellaproctor) — Startup identity and current role. Source class: Self-maintained profile.
7. [Gray research and benchmark record](https://grayworth.com/research) — Gray performance methodology and measured results. Source class: First party.
8. [Gray developer documentation](https://grayworth.com/docs) — Gray language and runtime capabilities. Source class: First party.

This is a first-party autobiography. Institutional and external records are labeled in the source register.