Clay Mccoy
Staff Software Engineer at Starburst
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClay Mccoy is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud-native deployment platforms and developer tooling, currently based in Alabama and now at Starburst. A longtime contributor to Spinnaker and former Netflix Delivery Engineering member, he authored large portions of AWS provider and orchestration logic and has deep expertise in plugin frameworks, event systems, and multi-cloud integrations. He blends backend systems work (Scala, Kotlin, Go) with practical front-end improvements, having contributed to Spinnaker's UI and built SDLC transparency tools with GraphQL and React. Clay has repeatedly led migrations and platform hardening—standardizing Gradle dependencies to remove CVEs, adding Cloud Foundry and Artifactory support, and proving that full cloud providers can be implemented as Spinnaker plugins. He also has hands-on experience introducing CI/CD systems (Dagger) and building graph-backed event ingestion (Neo4j) for traceable deployment workflows.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Alabama
Github Skills (42)
kotlin10
api-rest10
javascript10
cloud-computing10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
grails10
api-design10
groovy10
restful-api10
testing10
plugin-development10
java10
javas10
uid10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/asgard
May 2012 - Nov 2015
[Asgard is deprecated at Netflix. We use Spinnaker ( www.spinnaker.io ).] Web interface for application deployments and cloud management in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Binary download: http://github.com/Netflix/asgard/releases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:530 commits, 9 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Clay contributed to the Asgard project by implementing features and making improvements to various components. The commits show a focus on modifying Java code and related configurations, including updates to the build process and dependency management. Their work involved enhancing the system's functionality, addressing reported issues, and improving the overall performance.
aws-web-servicesasgardnetflixweb-interfaceamazon
spinnaker/clouddriver
Jun 2014 - Aug 2020
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 1 review, 190 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Clay contributed to the implementation of features related to AWS cloud services, including SimpleWorkflow, CloudWatch, and EC2 classic functionality. Their contributions involved creating and integrating AWS clients within the `clouddriver` repository, along with refactoring and testing existing code. Further work included the addition and removal of security group and load balancer configurations within the codebase.
gcpproviderscloudcloud-providersazure
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