January Clark
Software Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJanuary Clark is a software engineer with 11 years of experience delivering web and cloud applications for healthcare and financial services, with seven years focused on hands-on development. She builds and refactors scalable microservices and serverless systems on AWS using .NET, Java, Spring Boot, and Apache Spark, and pairs that backend expertise with front-end work in Angular and UI test automation. January has a strong testing and DevSecOps mindset from roles in QA and SDET, where she created cloud test environments, automation APIs, and CI/CD pipelines. An active open-source contributor, she improved Serilog’s handling of floating-point edge cases and added convention tests to strengthen logging APIs. Based in Washington, D.C., she combines practical production delivery with a knack for turning legacy ASP.NET components into flexible microservice architectures.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Associate's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Montgomery CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Security and Risk Analysis: Information and Cyber Security, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Security and Risk Analysis: Information and Cyber Security at Penn State University
English
Github Skills (11)
net10
unit-testing10
asp-net10
dotnet10
serilog10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
json-form9
formatting9
json9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
serilog/serilog
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 25 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:January primarily contributed to improving the Serilog library by addressing formatting issues related to floating-point special values (NaN, Infinity). They refactored code by replacing switch statements with separate functions for improved clarity and maintainability. Additionally, the user implemented and tested convention tests for the logging methods, ensuring consistent API usage, alongside adding tests to validate the `ILogger` interface methods.
dotneteventsstructuredloggerstructured-logging
TonyValenti/Mime-Detective-clarkis117
May 2016 - Nov 2018
Mime type detector for files, byte arrays, and streams, .NET Standard Fork
Contributions:35 releases, 99 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 6 months
dotnetbytebyte-arraysmime-typesstreams
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