Clay Goddard
Staff Software Engineer at FullStory
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolClay Goddard is a Staff Software Engineer based in Atlanta with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput services and APIs. He advanced through roles at Square and FullStory, shipping core Orders and authentication systems, microservices, and integrations that supported merchant payments and developer-facing APIs. Comfortable across JVM and Go services as well as web and mobile client flows, he’s delivered both backend resilience and user-facing security features like two-factor authentication. Clay’s background includes cross-platform visualization work at Microsoft and early full-stack experience with Python/Django, reflecting a breadth from low-level rendering to product-facing web apps. Known for taking ownership of critical systems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a capacity to simplify complex legacy integrations. Outside of product work, his teaching and internship roles show a longstanding interest in mentoring and practical developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (44)
postman10
cpp8
embedded8
grpc8
database8
sql8
linux8
solr8
golang8
upstream7
javascript7
solrcloud7
java7
analytics7
windows7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fullstorydev/lucene-solr
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Contributions:34 reviews, 35 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 2 months
solrcfmlapachelucenejava
claygoddard/claygoddard.github.io
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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