Clayton Dunwell
Founder at Platypus
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolClayton Dunwell is a founder and full-stack systems engineer with over a decade of production experience building resilient data pipelines, dashboards, and reporting systems across startups and enterprise security. He has driven technical outcomes that directly impacted company exits—most notably architecting PDF report generation and dashboards at Expanse that contributed to its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks—and later served as a Senior Staff Engineer at PANW. Comfortable from device integrations and DERMS to investment research platforms, he blends backend expertise (Python, Java, Spring, Elasticsearch) with practical front-end and data-visualization work (React, D3, Vega). An early civic-tech contributor, Clayton improved robustness of OpenStates scrapers to handle shifting legislative data formats, showing an attention to real-world data quality and long-lived tooling. He mentors engineers, advocates for developer productivity (transitioning teams to Docker and modern pipelines), and pairs entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on execution. Based in Miami, he currently leads Platypus, continuing to build systems that turn complex data into reliable products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Economics Classics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Economics Classics at Brown University
Latin, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
data-extraction10
e-government10
scraper10
g10
python10
lxml9
csv8
subprocess8
github7
javascript6
pycharm6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstates/openstates-scrapers
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
source for Open States scrapers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Clayton's contributions center around improving the functionality of the scraper scripts for various states within the openstates-scrapers repository. They addressed issues related to data parsing and error handling, particularly when reading data from different sources. The user implemented fixes for handling bills and committees, updated the code to reflect changing data formats from states, and optimized the scraping process. These changes improved the robustness and accuracy of the data extraction process.
scraperpythongovernmentscrapers
sunlightlabs/emailcongress
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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