Clinton D'annolfo is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to Citadel Securities from his base in Miami. He combines full‑stack development expertise with an entrepreneurial streak as founder and technical lead of Shave Like A Boss, a niche e‑commerce business for traditional shaving gear. Known for writing high‑quality, well‑architected code, he has hands‑on experience implementing React and GraphQL patterns—illustrated by his work on a universal Hacker News clone using React and Apollo. Comfortable across client and server concerns, he focuses on clean abstractions like higher‑order components and robust data fetching. A US resident active in open source and social tech communities, he balances production engineering at a major trading firm with running a product business. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, detail‑oriented, and curious about bridging user‑facing interfaces with reliable backend services.
Hacker News clone rewritten with universal JavaScript, using React and GraphQL.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:137 commits, 6 PRs, 151 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Clinton implemented client-side higher-order components using React and Apollo to fetch data. They also modified the NewsFeed component, integrating it with GraphQL queries. The user made code changes to the pages and layouts for presenting Hacker News articles. Several updates involved the core components like NewsTitle, NewsDetail, and Comment to fetch and display data properly.
Contributions:63 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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Clinton D'annolfo - Software Engineer at Citadel Securities