Clayton Gentry
Chief Technology Officer at Podstock
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolClayton Gentry is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience designing and scaling high-throughput web platforms. He has led platform engineering at BDG—servicing hundreds of millions of requests monthly—and now guides technical strategy at Podstock, blending hands-on Typescript/AWS work with team leadership. Clayton excels at simplifying complex integrations (notably systematizing data integration for acquisitions) and optimizing cost-efficient, performant infrastructure across Redis, Postgres, Elasticsearch and serverless architectures. Based in New York, he pairs a journalism background with technical depth to improve editorial and revenue workflows, bringing a product-minded perspective to platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Journalism (marketing) English literature, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Journalism (marketing) English literature at Northwestern University
javascript, python, elixir, sql, ruby
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Github Skills (123)
github10
meta-tags10
git10
oembed10
extraction10
schema-org10
structured-data10
data-extraction10
json-ld10
editor9
javascript9
hotel-booking9
linux9
crud9
windows9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
claytongentry/furlex
Jul 2017 - Feb 2021
A structured data extraction tool written in Elixir
Contributions:1 review, 76 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 7 months
json-ldextractionjsonldstructuredschema-org
invrs/inverse_auth
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
The auth plug we are using in our elixir endpoints.
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
authenticationelixirendpointsphoenixplug
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