Oliver Clarke
Software Engineer at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Clarke is a seasoned software engineer and founder with over a decade of experience building web and mobile products at startups and at scale, currently contributing to YouTube in San Francisco. He has deep full‑stack expertise across Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Objective‑C, and Go, and a track record of architecting monolith-to-microproduct splits, large MySQL migrations, and enterprise authentication integrations like Shibboleth. As founder of My Tours/Authentic he led product and engineering from the ground up, shipping native iOS clients and Rails backends while coordinating distributed teams and React Native rewrites. His career includes scaling teams and systems through Wildfire’s growth and Google acquisition, and he pairs hands‑on implementation with product-focused design and testing infrastructure work. A US permanent resident with a Computer Science degree from Victoria University of Wellington, he blends entrepreneurial instincts with proven experience in complex backend and mobile engineering.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (47)
invocation9
cross-browser9
eps8
messaging7
iphone7
rasterizer7
plotter7
browser7
gio7
angular-material6
pdf6
vector-graphics6
rails6
webpack6
javascript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
clarketus/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:45 pushes in 7 years 2 months
clarketus/concurrent_downloader
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:29 commits in 7 days
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