Clayton Selby
Software Engineer at Neuro-ID
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolClayton Selby is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building product and infrastructure at Neuro-ID from Austin, Texas. He brings practical backend and DevOps strengths—demonstrated by maintaining and migrating the DocumentCloud platform and improving webserver and database setups—to production-grade systems. Clayton has a track record of enhancing reliability and control in distributed processing, such as adding blacklist management and tests to the CloudCrowd parallel-processing project. He blends hands-on engineering with a user-focused mindset, driven by a passion for bringing others joy. Outside work he’s an avid climber and ultimate player, often drawing creative problem-solving energy from the outdoors. His background in IT entrepreneurship informs a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology: Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology: Entrepreneurship at Abilene Christian University
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Github Skills (25)
database-migrations10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
bash10
ruby10
activerecord10
database-migration10
backend10
devops10
testing9
rails9
sinatra9
ruby-on-rails9
nginx9
apidoc8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
documentcloud/documentcloud
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
The DocumentCloud platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Clayton's contributions primarily involve setting up and maintaining the DocumentCloud platform's infrastructure and database, and performing migrations. They made updates to the setup scripts for the application, webserver and database, including fixes for database migrations and improvements to network speed. They also worked on configuring the webserver and integrating with tools like Rails and passenger, and added new rake tasks for development and debugging.
documentcloud
documentcloud/cloud-crowd
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Parallel Processing for the Rest of Us
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Clayton's primary contribution focused on implementing a blacklisting feature within the CloudCrowd system. This involved adding a model for blacklisted actions, modifying the work unit processing to consider the blacklist, and adding server endpoints for managing and retrieving blacklist information. The user also added tests for the blacklisting functionality. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing the system's control and security.
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