Clint Ecker
Software Engineer at 2389 Research
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorClint Ecker is a Software Engineer based in Chicago with 15 years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems. Currently at 2389 Research, he focuses on pragmatic engineering and shipping production-ready code. An active open-source contributor, Clint enhanced SQS support in the well-known moto AWS mocking library—adding delayed messages, visibility timeouts, and message attributes plus tests—showing deep understanding of distributed messaging semantics. He blends practical cloud knowledge with rigorous testing practices, making integrations easier for other developers. Known for a concise, no-nonsense approach to problems, Clint prefers solutions that are maintainable and well-covered by tests.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
aws-sqs-fifo10
unit-testing10
boto10
aws10
python10
amazon-sqs10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Clint primarily focused on enhancing the SQS (Simple Queue Service) functionality within the `moto` library, a mocking framework for AWS. They implemented support for features like message delaying, visibility timeouts, and message attributes. The user's work involved modifying the `moto/sqs` models, responses, and utils files, demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS SQS service and its underlying implementation. They also wrote tests for these new features.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
clintecker/python-clint-utilities
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:10 releases, 8 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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