Clay Smart
Senior Software Engineer at Southwest Airlines
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolClay Smart is a senior software engineer based in Austin, Texas, with a decade of experience building intuitive full-stack applications and a focus on clean design and optimization. He has advanced frontend expertise from roles at projekt202 and now brings that experience to enterprise-scale work at Southwest Airlines. Clay combines product-minded UI development with practical backend integration, consistently prioritizing user experience and maintainable code. His background spans formal CS study at Texas Tech and intensive software engineering training at Hack Reactor, signaling both foundational knowledge and modern tooling fluency. Previously working outside tech in insurance and security, he brings an uncommon operational perspective to risk-aware and user-centric solutions. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Clay excels at turning complex requirements into efficient, polished interfaces that scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Texas Tech UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorGithub contributions (5)
knownproject/knownproject
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:36 PRs, 35 pushes, 7 branches in 7 days
jahroost/javascript-koans
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
learn-javascriptjavascriptkoans
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