Gage Vander Clay
Senior Software Engineer at Brick
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGage Vander Clay is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building web applications and services across Java and JavaScript stacks. He brings practical full‑stack fluency—Java, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, React, Python, and C—tempered by a consultant’s habit of quickly understanding domain needs from his multi‑year tenure at Atomic Object. At Brick he now focuses on delivering production-grade systems while drawing on past wins like optimizing a DynamoDB data collector to cut AWS CloudWatch requests by over a third. Comfortable in Agile teams and automation workflows, he’s implemented deployment and documentation tooling with Ansible and Java that improved operational efficiency. Colleagues appreciate his blend of hands-on coding, performance-minded problem solving, and a knack for turning maintenance challenges into measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
English
Github Skills (91)
microfrontend10
realm10
nosql-database10
javascript10
typescript10
android10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
weex10
frontend10
react10
reactive9
mbaas9
framework79
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gvanderclay/ReactNativeHTTPServer
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
gvanderclay/dotspacemacs
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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