Summary
Clifford Ozewell is a seasoned software leader and Sr. Director of Software Engineering at SandStar AI, bringing eight years of experience building scalable, AI-driven systems and payment architectures. He combines deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native microservices, and ML model integration with hands-on skills in Python, C/C++, Go, and TensorFlow/PyTorch to move prototypes into resilient production. Clifford has a track record across domains—from high-throughput race-car CAN-bus telemetry and real-time processing to mobile BLE integrations and enterprise Windows server labs—demonstrating comfort with both low-latency embedded data and large-scale streaming pipelines. He’s passionate about DevOps and infrastructure-as-code, leveraging Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, and serverless patterns to automate reliable CI/CD and deployments. Known for bridging research and product, he prioritizes practical engineering trade-offs that accelerate AI feature delivery while maintaining operational durability.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona