Clifford Heath
Software Architect
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorClifford Heath is a seasoned software architect and toolmaker with nearly two decades building enterprise-grade products that run banks, airlines, telcos, national services and even the NASDAQ trader platform. Rooted in startup pragmatism, he combines deep hands-on engineering—from SQL Server internals, Active Directory and performance modeling to front-end Rails and JavaScript—with long-term product stewardship across many release cycles. He is especially strong in information modeling, cross-version compatibility and field-upgradability, and has a track record of solving gritty implementation problems (once debugging a custom circuit board under a microscope). An effective team leader and trainer, he focuses decision processes to deliver agreed outcomes while remaining deeply technical. His open-source contributions include practical fixes to the Rails SQL Server adapter, addressing date/time and binary data handling issues that improve enterprise interoperability. Based in Sydney, he brings an inventor’s mindset to complex systems design and delivery.
19 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
datetime10
database-connector10
adaptor10
datetimes10
ruby10
sql-server10
database-driver10
sql10
adapter10
activerecord10
timezone9
concurrency6
parsing6
windows6
tortoisegit6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter
Sep 2008 - Oct 2008
SQL Server Adapter For Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Clifford focused on modifying the SQL Server adapter for Rails, addressing date/time handling inconsistencies and implementing other database-related features. The contributions included fixing date/time conversions, and handling of DateTime objects. Furthermore, the commits indicate work on binary data insertion and retrieval within the SQL Server adapter.
sql-servertinytdsrailssqlruby
nathansobo/treetop
Dec 2007 - May 2018
Contributions:107 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 10 years 6 months
dslrubyparsingexpression-parsinggrammars
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