Ash Clarke
Director Of Engineering at OpenHands
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsh Clarke is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building full-stack Rails/React products and scaling teams in startups and growth-stage companies. Based in Denver, he specializes in designing high-trust, outcome-focused teams and aligning delivery strategy with business goals, having recruited and grown engineers from intern to principal level. He has led complex cross-organizational integrations and operational improvements—establishing SLOs and incident practices that measurably reduced incident frequency while increasing MAU. A longtime Rails contributor, he’s worked at the code level on projects like rubycentral/cfp-app, coupling practical back-end refactors with team coaching. Pragmatic and people-first, Ash brings clarity to ambiguity and a track record of turning fast-moving product requirements into reliable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy Economics, Philosophy Economics at University of Colorado DenverColorado AcademyFull Stack Development, Full Stack Development at Galvanize IncLewis & Clark College
Github Skills (11)
activerecord10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
schema-design9
rspec9
git7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rubycentral/cfp-app
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Rails app for managing a conference CFP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 18 days
Contributions summary:Ash primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the Rails application's back-end functionalities. Their contributions included altering database schema, modifying controllers to support new features, and updating models. They worked on implementing features related to speakers and organizers, allowing them to update profiles and manage event details. Additionally, the user refactored date formats for improved clarity.
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsrubycfp
GalvanizeOpenSource/git_local
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
rubygit-commandcli
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