Clay Walker
Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolClay Walker is a Senior Systems Software Engineer with 14 years building backend and full-stack systems, currently shaping infrastructure and tooling at NVIDIA from San Diego. His career spans startups and mission-driven organizations—Trellis, RStudio PBC, Instore, and Teradata—where he’s delivered APIs, integrations, and automation that streamline product and business workflows. A strong open-source advocate and former lead at RStudio, he blends product-focused engineering with a systems-level perspective honed early working on NATO geospatial tooling and XEN VMs. Clay is comfortable across the stack and the lifecycle: designing services, maintaining infrastructure, and shipping reliable automation in mixed teams of full-time and contract engineers. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he brings institutional knowledge from both embedded/product engineering and cloud/analytics environments to bear on complex system design.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
San Diego State University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
testing10
npm-package10
bluebird10
firefox10
api10
recurring10
salesforce10
nodejs10
mongodb10
libpq10
javascript-objects10
validate10
emmet10
ava10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
clayzermk1/rails-cookie-parser
Oct 2014 - Oct 2019
Express middleware to parse Rails session cookies
Contributions:4 releases, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years
railsexpressrubynodejsexpress-middleware
clayzermk1/node-marshal
Sep 2014 - Apr 2022
Parse Ruby's Marshal strings into JavaScript objects/JSON
Contributions:12 releases, 100 commits, 15 PRs in 7 years 8 months
stringsmarshaljavascriptrubyparser
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