Michael Clark
Research Assistant at SkyLords.com
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Clark is a PhD candidate and usable security researcher at Brigham Young University who studies making machine-assigned passwords memorable and practical for real-world encryption. With 14 years of software experience and a rapid rise to Principal Software Engineer within eight years, he blends embedded C, backend/API, and full-stack skills with a business-minded approach rooted in an MSc in Information Systems Management. He has run a long-lived online game (SkyLords) as sole programmer and sysadmin for over a decade, demonstrating operational resilience and hands-on systems administration. Michael favors terse, readable code and “problem-first” engineering—often rescuing and refactoring legacy systems to meet true user needs rather than checklist features. He aims to contribute non-driver Linux kernel code and publish research that bridges academic security insights with industry practice while mentoring the next generation of developers.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)PhD Candidate, Computer Science - Usable Security, PhD Candidate, Computer Science - Usable Security at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,787reputation
337kreached
56answers
14questions
php
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
php-library10
html-email10
sender10
password-manager10
mailgun10
windows10
nodemailer10
windows-application10
database-design10
music10
issue-tracking10
security10
keepass10
adodb10
music-visualizer10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Iiridayn/sample
Aug 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Iiridayn/gw2-arbitrage
Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
Finds items in Guild Wars 2 that can be sold on the trading post for a higher price than the cost of crafting the item.
Contributions:56 pushes, 59 branches in 1 year 11 months
guild-wars-2itemtradingwarscrafting
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