Michael Clark
Research Assistant at Brigham Young University
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.
14 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
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Github Skills (200)
windows10
yubikey10
nodemailer10
security10
php-library10
keepass10
windows-application10
linux10
music10
steam10
picotts10
adodb10
deepstream10
macos10
music-visualizer10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
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
LTUE/call-for-panelists
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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