Summary
Clay Connors is the President and founder of EntMaker, an AI chatbot startup that builds highly customizable agents and curated environments for them to operate. With 11 years of software and AI experience and graduate training from the University of Michigan, he blends applied research—change detection in aerial imagery and reinforcement learning in StarCraft II—with hands-on product engineering. He runs a boutique consultancy, Type Interactive, and has built ML systems for radar analysis and embedded health devices, reflecting a penchant for rapid prototyping of unconventional projects. Based in Cary, NC, Clay is as comfortable communicating directly with customers as he is iterating on experimental algorithms, and he brings a practical, experiments-first approach to turning research ideas into deployable products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.81 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.81 GPA at North Carolina State University