Cliff Moon
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCliff Moon is a Staff Software Engineer in Washington with 15 years of experience building scalable, high-performance distributed systems and infrastructure. He has led engineering teams and startups—from co-founding Boundary and Opsee to serving as CTO at UpGuard—before joining LinkedIn to focus on performance and scalability at scale. Cliff pairs hands-on systems programming (including cross-platform low-level networking work in Rust on libpnet) with executive leadership experience, giving him a rare blend of deep technical troubleshooting and product-minded team building. He’s consulted for HBO on realistic technical portrayals, a quirky signal of his ability to translate complex engineering into clear, believable narratives.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of TechnologyBS in CIS, BS in CIS at University of Delaware
Github Skills (4)
networking10
rust10
cross-platform10
binding9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
libpnet/libpnet
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Cross-platform, low level networking using the Rust programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Cliff primarily contributed to the `libpnet` project by addressing platform-specific compatibility issues related to the binding structures on different operating systems. They fixed compiler errors for `cfg` attributes to work with the latest nightly rustc. Their work involved modifying and merging struct definitions in `src/bindings/bpf.rs`, and adding clarifying comments. Additionally, the user removed a debugging print statement in `src/util.rs`.
packetsrustnetworkingcross-platformlibpnet
boundary/overlock
Apr 2011 - Feb 2014
Boundary's suite of concurrent scala utilities.
Contributions:44 commits in 2 years 10 months
boundaryfunctional-programmingscala-utilitiesscalasuite
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