Summary
Clay Valen is an architect and senior technical leader at Cisco Webex with a decade of experience delivering enterprise collaboration, IoT, and security products while remaining deeply hands-on in Java and C#. He designed and built instant.webex.com—enabling EHR-integrated telehealth—and authored public APIs and backends that power real-time collaboration across healthcare and other verticals. Clay’s career blends product, program, and engineering leadership with entrepreneurial roots: he wrote the CD-ROM software for Bill Gates’ The Road Ahead, built Visa’s international dispute system, and created multimedia experiences for top musical acts. He has led cross-border engineering teams, negotiated hardware platform integrations (including Apple Lightning audio), and shipped novel VR/Unity medical viewers that stream live calls into headsets. Recently he augmented his technical toolkit with a nearly complete Master’s in Data Science, reflecting a continued focus on bringing pragmatic, data-informed design to complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Data Science, 3.95, Masters, Data Science, 3.95 at University of Colorado Boulder
B.S., Business (Marketing, Finance, Economics), B.S., Business (Marketing, Finance, Economics) at UC Berkeley
Applied Math - Computer Science Track, Applied Math - Computer Science Track at Carnegie Mellon University