Clayton Knittel
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClayton Knittel is a software engineer in San Francisco with 8 years of experience building high-performance systems in C and C++. He currently focuses on C++ protobuf efficiency at Google, contributing optimizations that reduce global compute costs, and previously improved job scheduling for Borg. Clayton has a strong background in database tooling and benchmarking from his work at Aerospike, and early projects include backup utilities and Simscape visualization features shipped in MATLAB releases. He tutors and mentors computer science students, reflecting an ability to explain complex systems clearly. Notably, his mix of production-grade systems work and hands-on performance tuning makes him adept at squeezing real-world efficiency out of large-scale distributed software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics and Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Stackoverflow
16reputation
47reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (43)
serialization10
aerospike10
rust10
protobuf10
protocol-buffers9
transparent-proxy9
enums9
proxy9
rpc9
protoc9
compiler9
database8
cloud-native8
google-cloud-pubsub8
crate8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ClaytonKnittel/malloc-bench
Jul 2024 - Nov 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 142 PRs, 862 pushes in 1 year 3 months
ClaytonKnittel/onoro-rs
Jul 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 review, 33 PRs, 376 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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