Chris Clifford
Forward Deployed Engineer at Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth (CTY)
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Clifford is an AWS-certified full-stack cloud engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems across defense, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. Currently a Lead Engineer at Innovative Defense Technologies, he progressed from co-op roles to lead cloud applications and tactical systems work, specializing in AWS, containerization, and distributed service architectures. He has a track record of modernizing monoliths into service-based Java backends, deploying EKS-based ML platforms, and automating CI/CD and Docker build pipelines to improve resilience and cost visibility. Comfortable in Java and Python and fluent with Kubernetes and Docker, he pairs practical production delivery with formal training—a dual CS master’s and bachelor’s and a math minor from Drexel. A detail many miss: he has repeatedly converted prototype ML/AI workflows into scalable, cost-aware deployments rather than leaving them as one-offs.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Drexel University
German, English
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
compiler9
python7
unity2d5
libcloud5
eclipse4
apache4
database2
data-persistence2
data-visualization1
rust1
birt1
sqlite1
sql1
schema-migrations1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CrCliff/dota2-overunder
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Dota 2 over/under retrieves Dota 2 matches from the Dota API and provides over under stats for a specified amount of kills or number of minutes.
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 years
apimatchesdota-2statsdota
CrCliff/drexel-courses
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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