Summary
Clay Palumbo is a Senior Architect and hands-on full stack engineer with 8 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native, scalable systems—most recently leading a 12-person team to take a multi-agent generative AI platform from concept to production for a major U.S. energy provider. He blends deep technical execution (building core services, data pipelines, RAG search and agent orchestration) with architectural leadership and stakeholder-facing roadmap ownership, driving solutions used by thousands of enterprise users. His work has delivered measurable outcomes—supporting 125+ applications, enabling 75% company adoption at a client, and achieving a 96% retrieval success across 600k records. Based in Charlotte and AWS-certified, Clay spans frontend, backend, and data systems while prioritizing reliable, maintainable software that actually ships. He’s known for rapid POC delivery, boosting developer velocity, and mentoring senior engineers—often owning both the architecture and a large share of the critical code.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Full Stack Development, Certification, Full Stack Development at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Science - BS, Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology at Appalachian State University