Summary
Michael Clayton is a senior full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining high-traffic enterprise applications across media, postal services, and consumer platforms. Currently at parkrun in London, he brings front-to-back expertise honed leading React development and large-scale digital transformation projects at Royal Mail and earlier engineering roles at Sky. A long-time freelance co-founder of Clayton Industries, he blends product-minded development with hands-on implementation of apps and games. He has experience in safety- and transaction-sensitive systems, from ticket-gate control software to nationwide parcel services, demonstrating attention to reliability under load. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often bridges the gap between business stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver measurable impact. Trained in computer science at the University of Hull, he pairs academic foundations with a decade-plus of production experience.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Hull