Clay Risser
DevOps Manager at AtScale
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClay Risser is a seasoned DevOps and MLOps leader based in Austin with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, secure infrastructure for automotive, healthcare, and fintech customers. As a former chief architect and principal engineer, he has led cross-functional teams to design CI/CD pipelines, private Kubernetes clusters, multi-region failover, and SOC 2–aligned security programs while reducing cloud costs through on-prem and colocation deployments. He pairs deep coding fluency across Python, Go, TypeScript, Solidity and C/C++ with practical ML deployment experience using AWS SageMaker and KubeFlow, and has published hundreds of npm packages plus multiple pip modules. Beyond operations, Clay has served as CISO, implemented inference pipelines with Temporal, and rebuilt developer self-service platforms—demonstrating a rare blend of platform-building and security-first execution.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bob Jones University
Github Skills (200)
cfml10
testing10
ubuntu10
serverless10
openapi10
project-management10
localization10
api10
inferno10
dependency-injection10
imap10
full-stack10
fetch10
selector10
nodejs10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
clayrisser/react-redux-todo
Jun 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
clayrisser/wp-plugin-devkit
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 43 pushes in 4 months
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