Clifford Spital
Staff Software Engineer at Finvari
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClifford Spital is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native distributed systems across healthcare and higher education. He led architecture and platform initiatives at the University of Washington, authoring a next-generation microservice control plane and driving migrations to Azure and AWS while improving developer velocity with tooling and source generators. Clifford is a security-first engineer fluent in C#, Go, Python, Java, and TypeScript, with deep experience in databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), Terraform, and observability. He architected the backend for the open-source clinical data query tool Leaf (in production at UW Medicine and other sites) and built high-throughput medical NLP pipelines benchmarked at hundreds of thousands of notes per hour. Earlier in his career he applied scientific rigor as a climate scientist and co-authored multiple publications, a background that informs his data-driven approach to engineering and system design.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Biology, B.S. Biology at Brandeis University
Github Skills (121)
data-explorer10
deno10
javascript10
client-library10
dotnet10
sdk10
rust10
templating-engine10
handlebars10
typescript10
leaf10
script-engine10
csharp10
templating10
mustache10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
uwwebservices/GWSClient
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
A .NET Core client for interacting with UW's Group Web Service (GWS)
Contributions:5 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
dotnetnet-corecsharpweb-servicedotnet-core
uwrit/kpmp_user_portal
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Centralized User Portal API for the KPMP app suite
Contributions:89 commits, 64 PRs, 51 pushes in 4 months
pythonesxiflaskhyper-vredfish
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