Dave Clay
Principal Software Engineer at Invaio
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDave Clay is a Principal Software Engineer and architect based in Seattle with 25 years of creative and technical experience and 15 years focused on leading engineering delivery in health care and consumer services. He has driven cloud-native, HIPAA-secure backend systems and APIs for pharmacy and wellness platforms at CareZone and Walmart, combining hands-on engineering with InfoSec collaboration and cross-team coordination. Dave pairs deep backend and systems expertise—shown by contributions to the widely used FasterXML jackson-module-scala—with a history of scaling organizations, introducing CI/CD, and designing resilient, zero-downtime deployments. He currently builds data systems and field-ready apps for agriculture/biotech scientists, translating complex domain needs into practical, monitored solutions. Beyond code, he brings an uncommon creative perspective as a professional visual artist, which informs his UX sensitivity and interdisciplinary problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
scala10
serialization10
json10
data-serialization10
jackson10
enumeration9
enumerate9
iterable9
maps9
javas8
java8
xml6
scala-xml6
cbor4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FasterXML/jackson-module-scala
Jan 2011 - Jul 2011
Add-on module for Jackson (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) to support Scala-specific datatypes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the `jackson-module-scala` library by adding support for serializing and deserializing Scala-specific data types. Key contributions include the implementation of serializers and deserializers for mutable and immutable Maps, Lists, and Enumerations. The user refactored code, improved existing serializers, and added unit tests to ensure the proper functionality of the new features within the module.
fasterxmlobjectmappercborscaladatatypes
daveclay/retorx
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 238 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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