Clay Loveless
Founder Principal Architect at Stealth Startups, Consulting, Platform Projects
Oberlin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolClay Loveless is a founder and principal architect with 17 years of hands-on experience designing high-availability SaaS platforms for mission-critical and regulated environments. He builds pragmatic, cost-conscious systems that avoid vendor lock-in, blending modern AI workflows with proven patterns to deliver reliability without unnecessary complexity. As founder of Stealth Startups he created tools like CinchQL, SideQuest, and TinyGet to unify API access, inspect serverless runtimes in real time, and optimize HTTP clients for constrained environments. Clay’s background in performance arts gives him an unusual aptitude for translating technical complexity into clear, actionable guidance for teams and stakeholders. He thrives in collaborative, mentoring roles where he can both architect systems and ship code, with a north star of platform reliability paired with developer velocity. Based in Oberlin, Ohio, he’s the kind of engineer teams call when downtime simply isn’t an option.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Acting & Theatre Arts, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Acting & Theatre Arts at New York UniversityTheatre Arts, Theatre Arts at Texas A&M University
English
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Github Skills (120)
js-yaml10
yaml-configuration10
yaml10
textmate10
modular9
dynamodb-local9
defaults9
cli9
smartsheet9
coverage9
pecl9
openapi9
coveralls9
php9
eslint-plugin9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
LovelessLabs/jexy-dummy
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:31 releases, 81 PRs, 38 pushes in 7 days
claylo/gfm-preview
Aug 2015 - Oct 2022
GitHub Flavored Markdown preview bundle for TextMate.
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 7 years 3 months
flavoredtextmatebundlegithub-flavored-markdownmarkdown
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