Skyler Clark
Tech Director Design Director at Stealth-mode Startup
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkyler Clark is a technology and design leader with 8+ years building games, VR experiences, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently serving as Tech Director and Design Director at a stealth startup in Austin. He combines hands-on engineering roots from releases on Call of Duty titles and Natural Selection 2 with creative leadership demonstrated as Lead Designer on a VR project nominated for VR Game of the Year. A practiced systems thinker, Skyler contributes to high-profile open-source CI/CD tooling for OpenShift—migrating pipelines to GCP and hardening test infrastructure—which reflects deep expertise in distributed systems and DevOps. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and a BS in Interactive Media and Game Development, and he’s known for blending product-facing design sensibilities with backend reliability work. An eclectic technologist, he also leads a self-styled “distributed systems fanclub” and enjoys pairing technical depth with playful, cross-disciplinary collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaB.S., Interactive Media and Game Development, B.S., Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (13)
automation10
bash10
automations10
openshift10
cicd10
gcp10
kubernetes-pods9
testing9
ansible9
ansible-galaxy9
kubernetes9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 4 commits, 18 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Skyler's commits primarily focus on modifying and updating the CI/CD pipeline for the OpenShift release project. This involves adapting scripts for test execution, specifically related to cri-o, and migrating CI/CD processes to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The changes include updating etcd versions and adding vsphere-disconnected support, reflecting a focus on infrastructure and test automation within the OpenShift ecosystem. The commits also involve changes to the infrastructure setup of the build process.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
buddy-up/buddy-api
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
The API for the buddy app!
Contributions:84 PRs, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
buddyapinodejs
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