Summary
Clark Pathakis is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of hands-on experience building web and backend systems at companies like Zocdoc, Qualtrics, and FamilySearch. He is a JavaScript-focused developer who also works across Java, Python, Go, Apache Spark, and AWS, and is actively expanding into big data and machine learning. Known for enjoying puzzle-like problems, he favors pragmatic, elegant solutions and has a strong foundation from a Computer Science degree (3.78 GPA) at Brigham Young University. His career spans both customer-facing technical support roles and production engineering, giving him a practical perspective on reliability and user impact. At Zocdoc he contributes to scalable product engineering while keeping an eye on emerging data and ML tooling. Colleagues would describe him as curious, steadily upskilling, and effective at translating complex requirements into maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.78, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.78 at Brigham Young University