Tjad Clark is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing scalable, cloud-native systems and leading full project lifecycles across domains from real estate and forestry to AI music mastering and ASR. He blends backend expertise in Golang, Ruby and Node.js with frontend experience in Angular and React/Next.js, and a strong grounding in databases (Postgres/PostGIS, Neo4j) and event/data platforms like Kafka and Redis. Skilled in architecture, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes and secrets/VM orchestration, he has a track record of turning research-driven data science into production products and building context-aware systems. A natural data manipulator and critical thinker, he coaxes structure from messy data and has applied ML and computer vision in education, property management and video systems. Based in Saudi Arabia, he is an open-source supporter who started programming in 2005 and often sits at the intersection of pragmatic engineering and reproducible research.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera
Matric, English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Life Science, Physical Science, Information Technology, Matric, English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Life Science, Physical Science, Information Technology at Abbot's College Milnerton
Fairmont High School
Abbott's College Durbanville
Java Spring Framework, Java Spring Framework at Torque IT
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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