Clark Mcadoo
Senior Software Engineer at Dragos, Inc.
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClark Mcadoo is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and DevOps solutions, now based in Nashville and currently at Dragos. He blends front-end UX improvements with backend automation—at New Relic he improved docs UI and onboarding while also writing CI/CD validation scripts that used GraphQL to harden the quickstart submission pipeline. His background in chemical and process engineering gives him a systems-oriented approach to reliability and observability, translating industrial rigor into software delivery. Clark has co-founded a startup and moved between hands-on engineering and supervisory roles, showing an appetite for product ownership and team leadership. He’s comfortable shipping across the stack, from mobile styles and search UX to pipeline validation and log cleanup, with an eye for removing async complexity and noisy logging. Outside code, his trajectory from manufacturing process engineer to senior software engineer reflects practical problem-solving and adaptability.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English
Github Skills (29)
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javascript10
css10
ui-design10
cicd10
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automation10
front-end-development10
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githubaction-workflow10
devops10
gatsby10
react10
testing9
mobile-development9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/docs-website
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Source code for @newrelic docs. We welcome pull requests and questions on our docs!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:445 reviews, 242 commits, 565 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Clark primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the documentation website, contributing to UI updates, page layout, and the addition of new components. Their commits focused on enhancing the user experience through improvements to mobile styles and search functionality, in addition to implementing the functionality of the onboarding process. The user also added a feature to display EOL information and updated the codebase to support recent theme changes.
newrelicbacklogasciidocfeedbackdocumentation-site
newrelic/newrelic-quickstarts
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
New Relic One quickstarts help accelerate your New Relic journey by providing immediate value for your specific use cases.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 40 commits, 25 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Clark primarily contributed to the automation and validation processes within the repository. They focused on creating and updating install plan validations, particularly by modifying and testing a script to validate pull requests and their associated quickstarts. The commits show a focus on CI/CD pipeline improvements and ensuring the integrity of the quickstart submission process, including the use of GraphQL for validation. These changes included updating mutation names, cleaning up logs, and removing unneeded async functions within the validation scripts.
newreliccasesuse-casesdevopsquickstarts
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