John Clayton
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Billings, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Clayton is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems using Go, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. Currently at Grafana Labs and founder of Code Monkey Labs, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded ownership, having architected high-throughput telemetry and media integrations at Plex that handled hundreds of millions of requests daily. He has a strong track record in API design and OAuth integrations, evidenced by contributions improving OAuth1 handling in the widely used RestSharp library. Based in Billings, Montana, John favors pragmatic, reliable engineering—migrating fragile ingestion pipelines to robust MongoDB/BigQuery flows—and enjoys turning messy, distributed problems into maintainable services.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
Github Skills (8)
net10
asp-net10
rest-api10
dotnet10
csharp10
oauth10
dotnet-core10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
restsharp/RestSharp
Feb 2011 - Nov 2011
Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on improving the OAuth1 authentication process within the RestSharp library. Their contributions include fixing issues related to access token requests and parameter encoding. The user also added tests to ensure the proper encoding of OAuth parameters. They were involved in integrating Netflix authentication, suggesting a focus on API integration and OAuth implementations.
api-clientapidotnethttp-api-clientcsharp
plexinc/plex-slack-music-notifications
Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
A simple handler for Plex webhooks which edits Slack status
Contributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
slack-statusplexstatuswebhookslack
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