Clay Mcclure
Principal Flight Software Engineer at Vast
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolClay Mcclure is a Principal Flight Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building mission-critical systems for space and networking companies, currently developing artificial-gravity habitats at Vast. He previously drove software for vehicle launches at SpaceX and shipped full-stack products at Cisco Meraki, spanning bootloaders, device drivers, databases, and web front ends. Clay pairs deep systems and test automation expertise—evident from QA contributions to the high-profile pip project—with an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Based in Redmond, he brings an “armchair astronaut” curiosity and a biology background that informs a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to long-duration space systems.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
pip10
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
django9
namespaces9
packaging9
xcode6
ios6
macos6
postgresql6
project-organization6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/pip
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
The Python package installer
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Clay primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the reliability of the `pip` package installer. Their work includes adding new tests to verify correct behavior, fixing issues in existing tests to work with new file assertions, and adding a test to guarantee the removal of temporary build directories. The user's commits also demonstrate a focus on clarifying test setup and teardown procedures. Overall, the contributions are centered on maintaining and improving the testing of the pip project.
package-installerpythonpippackaging
claymation/void
Mar 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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