Clay Gardner
Senior Software Engineer at Angi (formerly angieslist)
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClay Gardner is a product-focused senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend solutions and shipping reliable software from Denver. He combines a strong applied math and computer science foundation (Cum Laude, College of Charleston) with pragmatic, self-starting execution at Angi. Clay’s hands-on work includes implementing algorithmic solutions and test suites—demonstrated by his Java contributions to an Elements of Programming Interviews repo covering arrays, strings, and linked lists. Comfortable optimizing legacy code and fixing bugs, he emphasizes clean, testable implementations that map directly to product needs. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete, maintainable services. He brings a quiet rigor and curiosity rooted in algorithmic problem solving to everyday product engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degrees, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor's degrees, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Cum Laude at College of Charleston
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Github Skills (26)
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algorithms10
typed-array10
multidimensional-arrays10
dynamic-array10
arrayobject10
data-structure10
java10
javas10
junit10
linked-list10
data-structures10
unit-test10
parallel-arrays10
binary-search-tree8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gardncl/elements-of-programming-interviews
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Method stubs and test cases for the problems from Elements of Programming Interviews
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 294 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Clay primarily focused on implementing solutions to problems drawn from "Elements of Programming Interviews" in Java. Their contributions involved creating method stubs and test cases for problems related to arrays, strings, and linked lists. They also made several bug fixes and optimizations to existing code.
caseselements-of-programming-interviewsmavenjunit4maven-surefire
gardncl/elements-of-programming-interviews-solutions
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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