Barrett Clark
Senior Engineering Manager at IBM
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarrett Clark is a Senior Engineering Manager with 17 years of experience building high-performing teams and shipping developer tools at scale from Dallas, Texas. He blends hands-on engineering chops—contributing to notable open-source projects like HashiCorp Terraform to improve cloud integrations and init/state migration UX—with seasoned leadership across HashiCorp and IBM. His background spans full-stack web development, DevOps, and product-focused engineering roles, including directing conference software and running a small web agency since 1999. Barrett is known for simplifying complex systems and improving developer experience, often surfacing clearer error messaging and streamlined flows that reduce operational friction. He pairs an MBA in Marketing/IT with deep technical roots in Ruby on Rails, cloud migrations, and infrastructure automation, bringing both product empathy and technical rigor. A practical tinkerer at heart, he still ships code and tests alongside leading teams, bridging strategy and execution.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Marketing IT, MBA Marketing IT at Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of BusinessBBA Marketing IT, BBA Marketing IT at Texas Christian University
Github Skills (29)
javascript10
cloud-computing10
back-end-development10
testing10
rails10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
go10
infrastructure-as-code10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
cloud-manager9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rubycentral/cfp-app
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Rails app for managing a conference CFP
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 83 commits, 135 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Barrett primarily worked on the front-end and back-end components of the conference CFP application. They updated dependencies for Ruby and Node.js, and made significant changes to the React-based schedule component, fixing bugs and improving its functionality. Additionally, they implemented a feature to support speaker location preferences and added reviewer tags.
rails-app
hashicorp/terraform
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 42 commits, 21 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Barrett primarily focused on improving the Terraform Cloud integration within the `terraform` repository. Their work included refactoring and simplifying the cloud-related code, enhancing the user experience with clearer error messages and prompts for `terraform init` and state migration. The user also modified several e2e tests, and updated code to correctly migrate from backend "remote" and "local" to Terraform Cloud, and made changes to the init process.
terraformgraphinfrastructure-as-codecloudcloud-management
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