Clay Gimenez
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClay Gimenez is a UX-focused senior software engineer with a decade of experience building user-facing products, currently designing innovative video experiences for Netflix TV using JavaScript and React. He blends a mechanical engineering background and graduate research from MIT with hands-on frontend engineering, bringing a systems-minded approach to interaction design. At Netflix he shipped high-impact features like Skip Intro, and earlier roles at Draper and MIT involved leading React/D3 apps and building an NLP-driven design reflection engine. His work often sits at the intersection of research, user studies, and production engineering, enabling data-informed UX decisions. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has a track record of turning complex research prototypes into polished consumer-facing interfaces. Clay’s uncommon combination of robotics and microbial-selection research experience hints at a broad curiosity that informs creative problem solving in product engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
S.M., Mechanical Engineering, S.M., Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
claygimenez/claygimenez.github.io
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 pushes in 6 months
claygimenez/databot
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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