Clay Unicorn
Co-Founder at The Horn
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolClay Unicorn is a serial founder and software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building products, leading engineering teams, and guiding startups from MVP to exit. As Co-Founder of Scaffald and founder of Unicorn, he blends product-first thinking with technical depth across embedded systems, mobile/web stacks, and cloud infrastructure. He’s consulted for Google, Samsung, Facebook, and Comcast, and has a track record of turning agency and studio work into investable ventures and repeatable product playbooks. Clay pursues businesses that leverage technology for societal impact, preferring partners aligned with core values, culture, and automation-driven scale. Equally at home in low-level C++ and assembly as in TypeScript, React, and Go, he’s curious about quantum mechanics, ML, gamification, and cryptography—often applying cross-domain ideas to novel product problems. Based in Michigan, he also operates consumer-facing experiments like a restored community grocery and salon that serve as living labs for SMB tech strategies.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Studied Computer Science and Mathematics, Studied Computer Science and Mathematics at The University of OlivetStudied Graphic Design, Studied Graphic Design at Kellogg Community CollegeVisual Design and Web Media, Visual Design and Web Media at Ferris State University
Chinese, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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898reached
1answer
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Github Skills (158)
interface-builder10
uipageviewcontroller10
google-places10
foursquare10
swift10
macos10
objective-c10
ios10
tus9
hstore9
location9
carthage9
uploader9
bug-tracker9
atom-editor9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thinkclay/dotfiles
Jun 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
UnicornTV/Swift-Example-Introduction-to-SpriteKit
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:8 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 3 months
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