Cliff Green
Software Consultant at New Mexico C++ Programmers Meetup Group
New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCliff Green is a seasoned software consultant and systems programmer with decades of experience designing low-latency, highly available, mission-critical infrastructure—most often in C++—and a track record spanning aerospace, telecom, and startup domains. He built and maintains an opinionated open-source C++ networking/socket library (ConnectiveCPP) and has returned to active development after a period of consulting, investing, and semi-retirement. Based in New Mexico after many years in the Seattle area, Cliff blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and community leadership as co-organizer of the New Mexico C++ Meetup. His background includes senior roles at Boeing on airborne surveillance simulation, principal architecture for Locate Networks and real-time systems at USIntelco, plus teaching C++ at university and professional training organizations. Beyond software, he invests in and volunteers with regional aviation and restoration organizations, reflecting a practical curiosity that extends into embedded systems, robotics, Rust and Julia explorations.
8 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northeastern State UniversityMusic Teacher Education, Music Teacher Education at Rend Lake CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mt. Vernon High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
English, German
Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
udp10
catch210
networking10
distributed-computing10
condition-variable10
tcp10
multicast10
asio10
cpp10
tcp-socket10
udp-socket10
cmake9
thread8
queue6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
connectivecpp/connectivecpp.github.io
Jan 2020 - May 2025
Connecting the World with C++
Contributions:4 PRs, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months
connectivecpp/periodic-timer
May 2024 - Dec 2025
An efficient asynchronous periodic timer in C++, simplifying Asio timers, function object timer callbacks
Contributions:4 releases, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 7 months
asiocallback-functionscatch2cmakecpp
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