Struan Clark
Senior Backend Engineer And Data Architect
Brighton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStruan Clark is a Senior Backend Engineer and Data Architect with over 15 years building high-performance messaging, ETL, and monitoring systems across renewable energy, defense, and cybersecurity domains. At NREL he architects metrics pipelines for a 44-petaflop supercomputer, transforming streaming Kafka/MQTT data and diverse file formats into Druid, PostgreSQL, S3, and HDFS at scale. He has led design and deployment of message recording and high-throughput TCP/serial testing tools used in both land and shipboard integrations, and re-architected legacy Node.js, Python, Java, and ColdFusion stacks for containerized Kubernetes deployments. Experienced in CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab-CI, and Jenkins, he also brings hands-on security research into embedded NFC systems and field test reconstruction for mission-critical evaluations. Struan’s background blends low-level protocol engineering with cloud-native data warehousing, and he frequently operates on-site to close the loop between development, testing, and customer needs. Based in Brighton, Colorado, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a track record of squeezing performance from both hardware and distributed software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (69)
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discord10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xtruan/xtruan.github.io
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
xtruan/animatronic-control
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Animatronic control with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 11 months
raspberry-piraspberryarduino
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