Jeffrey Clark
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Clark is a Senior Software Engineer with 19 years of experience who currently applies his deep Python and systems expertise at MongoDB while running his own consultancy, ACLARK.NET. He is the creator of the widely used Pillow library, a pivotal modern fork of the Python Imaging Library, and has a long track record of meaningful open-source contributions to projects like PyMongo and django-axes. With a background spanning system and network administration at NIMH and early internet companies, he brings pragmatic, production-focused architecture and tooling experience across infrastructure and developer libraries. A practiced mentor and technical writer, he pairs clear documentation and teaching with hands-on coding to improve maintainability and adoption of complex software.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Loyola University Maryland
English
Stackoverflow
4,345reputation
126kreached
81answers
30questions
pip
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Github Skills (34)
python10
sphinx10
django10
packaging10
authentication10
user-authentication10
mongodb-database10
security10
mongodb10
documentation10
pymongo10
testing9
restructuredtext9
licensing9
key-management9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
collective/Collective
Jul 2011 - Feb 2014
Plone Collective Requests, Questions, Maintenance
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:228 commits, 64 comments, 36 issues in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey's contributions primarily focused on updating and maintaining documentation for the `collective/collective` repository. The commits reveal efforts to rebuild documentation, remove references to external translation services, and revise wording. The work involved updating several documentation files, demonstrating a clear emphasis on improving the project's documentation and user experience.
pythonmaintenanceplonecollective
python-pillow/Pillow
Jul 2010 - Jan 2023
Python Imaging Library (Fork)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 27 reviews, 1080 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey's primary contribution involves forking the Python Imaging Library (PIL) into the Pillow project. Their initial commits establish the project, its description, and the license. They then add build instructions, prepare for a 1.0 release, and introduce features such as documentation and packaging improvements. Subsequent commits revolve around renaming and versioning, setting up the basic foundation for future work on the fork.
imagepythonimagingpython-3image-processing
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