Orion Cleaver is a Senior Software Engineer III with 11 years of experience building scalable backend services and full-stack applications, currently at Nike after prior roles at AWS and Michaels. He has a strong foundation in search and NLP, having designed developer- and public-facing search APIs and built machine learning models to improve semantic understanding. Orion pairs product-focused engineering with pragmatic system design—shipping maintainable APIs consumed across enterprises and optimizing for scalability. His background blends academic research in cognitive science and long-text coreference modeling with hands-on internships that delivered production web apps and integrations. Based in Ann Arbor, he brings both cloud-scale experience from AWS and practical retail search expertise, making him adept at translating complex language problems into reliable services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Cognitive Science , Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Cognitive Science at University of Michigan
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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Orion Cleaver - Senior Software Engineer III at Nike