Clifton Barnes
Engineering Manager at Files.com
Fishers, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolClifton Barnes is an engineering manager and hands-on software engineer with 10+ years of experience spanning embedded systems, custom Linux/Android BSPs, and cloud-native web applications. He moved from low-level firmware and kernel work—where his patches reached mainline Linux—to leading full-stack development in Python, Django, Node.js, and Docker for cloud storage integrations. As a co-founder and CTO he built robotics-education web platforms and later helped guide SmartFile through acquisition into Files.com, where he now manages engineering work across integrations and product delivery. Clifton combines deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic product-facing engineering, and maintains a history of open-source contributions to client libraries and API integrations. Based in Fishers, Indiana and educated at Purdue, he’s comfortable bridging hardware constraints and scalable cloud services to deliver reliable, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Purdue University
English
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Github Skills (85)
one-time10
factor-authentication10
wrapper10
passwords10
django9
disable9
socket9
pluggable9
python9
blockly9
session-cookie9
bootstrap9
accessibility9
factor9
ssh8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
smartfile/python-libarchive
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
Libarchive wrapper for Python.
Contributions:12 releases, 22 reviews, 48 commits in 2 years 9 months
python36pythonlibarchivewrapper
rovercode/blockly
Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
The web-based visual programming editor.
Contributions:11 PRs, 11 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
visual-programming-editorreactjavascriptweb-basedvisual-programming
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