Jay Clifford
Staff Developer Advocate
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Clifford is a Staff Developer Advocate based in Edinburgh with five years of experience building developer communities and hands-on cloud and IoT solutions. A Heriot-Watt Computer Science graduate and Saltire Scholar, he blends technical advocacy—creating demos, blogs, webinars and an interactive Grafana learning plugin—with prior roles in solutions architecture and cloud engineering. He has practical experience delivering POCs, shaping product feedback loops, and running customer-facing technical sales for IoT and image-processing projects. Known for turning complex telemetry and analytics needs into approachable developer experiences, Jay bridges product, marketing and engineering to drive adoption and real-world implementations.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Keith Grammar SchoolHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
English
Github Skills (100)
dashboard10
postgresql10
python10
distributed-tracing10
telegraf10
grafana10
opentelemetry-collector10
pandas-dataframe10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
xpath10
influxdb10
backend10
monitoring10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
InfluxCommunity/Telegraf-Community-Configs
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
The purpose of this repository is to promote the creation, sharing, and reuse of configs among the Telegraf community. Anybody can submit new configs or improvements upon existing configs and use these configs in their own architectures.
Contributions:50 commits, 5 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 1 month
telegrafconfigtelegraf-pluginstemplates
InfluxCommunity/quix-saving-holidays
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Saving the holidays demo
Contributions:1 PR, 210 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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