Chris Clifton
Software Engineer at RTS Labs
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Clifton is a software engineer with six years of experience building and maintaining full-stack Ruby on Rails applications at RTS Labs. He blends modern Rails practices (Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus) with hands-on experience in legacy stacks using Sinatra and jQuery, and is comfortable across SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Tailwind CSS, and AWS/Unix ops. Based in Richmond, VA, he delivers pragmatic solutions that prioritize stability and incremental modernization for production systems. Trained in computer software engineering at Launch School after a BA in Political Science, he brings a disciplined, analytical mindset to engineering trade-offs and team collaboration. Notably, his skill set spans both front-end UX polish and back-end reliability, making him effective at bridging product needs and technical constraints.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Government at Christopher Newport UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Launch School
Github Skills (14)
vault10
api-gateway9
service-discovery9
infrastructure8
distributed-systems8
consul8
kubernetes8
golang8
data-center8
cloud-native7
service-mesh7
microservices7
react2
javascript2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chris-clifton/230
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
LS 230: DOM and Asynchronous Programming
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
javascriptdomasynchronousasynchronous-programming
chrisclifton-rts/test
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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