Clayton Wheeler
Principal Software Engineer at Genomenon, Inc
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolClayton Wheeler is a Principal Software Engineer with over 17 years of hands-on experience designing and operating backend and infrastructure systems, currently leading backend, data acquisition, and text analysis efforts at Genomenon. He combines deep systems and Linux expertise with strong software craft—Python, Go, C++, PostgreSQL, message-driven architectures, and cloud-native AWS/Terraform deployments—to build reliable, high-performance services. Clayton brings domain-specialized knowledge in genomics (VCF, HGVS, ISCN), biomedical text mining, and PDF/content extraction that informs pragmatic architecture and tooling choices. A technical leader who mentors and thrives on rescuing and modernizing legacy systems, he also integrates cutting-edge AI tooling such as OpenAI/GPT into production workflows. Not obvious from titles alone, he has a background spanning prepress image processing and desktop-publishing automation, which gives him a unique appreciation for file formats and content fidelity in large-scale data pipelines.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of MichiganBiology General, Biology General at Seattle Central College
Spanish
Github Skills (112)
windows10
cmake10
ruby10
visual-studio10
cpp10
crf10
linux10
cross-platform10
vcpkg10
macos10
package-manager10
setuptools10
homebrew10
c-library10
swig10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
csw/libraft
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:101 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
csw/lc2k-scheme
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:94 commits in 18 days
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