Clay Branch
Technical Lead at collide.
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolClay Branch is a hands-on Technical Lead and Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and rescuing high-stakes front-end systems for startups and $100M+ enterprises. He specializes in React, TypeScript, Storybook, and pragmatic tooling that accelerates teams—shipping full apps, component libraries, and critical launches under tight timelines. Clay has shipped products used by millions, contributed important fixes to open-source libraries like Uber’s BaseWeb, and created bespoke developer tooling (TypeScript compiler extensions and API mocking systems) that reduce regressions and unblock work. He’s known for turning ambiguous problems into steady progress—whether slashing load times from seconds to milliseconds, automating Excel pipelines to open new revenue, or prototyping point-of-sale systems in days to close deals. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he combines literary-trained communication with deep technical craft to make complex projects reliably executable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English Literature, English Literature at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (163)
testing10
component-library10
linter10
linting10
javascript10
react-component10
devtools10
ecmascript10
angular10
localstorage10
eslint10
lint10
luxon10
vue10
svelte10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
regolithed/tx-voting-platform
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 168 PRs, 124 pushes in 4 months
texastargetingvoting
regolithed/react-bedrock
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 40 PRs, 27 pushes in 5 days
reactredux-boilerplateboilerplatereact-reduxredux
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