Clyde Law
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolClyde Law is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 15+ years of hands-on engineering and 20+ years of industry experience shaping architectures and building teams from startup founding roles to technical leadership at multi-nationals. He has driven platform and product delivery at Airbnb and FutureAdvisor (later BlackRock), combining deep systems design with pragmatic delivery as a founding engineer and principal architect. His early career at Microsoft and research background from MIT inform a disciplined engineering approach that spans backend systems, security-conscious integrations, and scalable platform design. An active open-source contributor, Clyde has improved security and compatibility in widely used Ruby SAML tooling, surfacing a focus on secure SSO and robust test coverage that often goes unseen in higher-level architecture work.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - SB, Bachelor of Science - SB at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (12)
xml10
saml10
ruby10
openssl9
regular-expression8
testing8
recursion6
datetime6
delayed-job6
fibonacci6
acts-as-taggable-on6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
SAML SSO for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 26 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Clyde primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Ruby SAML toolkit. Their work included addressing compatibility issues in Ruby 1.8, freezing and duplicating security settings to prevent modification, and adding the ability to sign metadata. They also refactored regular expressions in the test suite and refactored and added tests for element_text method. The user's contributions improve the security and functionality of the library.
railssaml-ssorubysamlsso
FutureAdvisor/console_util
Apr 2011 - Feb 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 years 11 months
railsrubyconsole
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