Trent Clarke
Software Engineer at Teleport
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTrent Clarke is a Melbourne-based software engineer with 12 years of professional experience building reliable, performance-focused systems in C++, Rust, Go, Python and embedded Linux. He combines deep object-oriented and functional design skills with hands-on backend and networking expertise, currently contributing to the widely used Teleport project where he enhances storage backends, testing and documentation. His career includes architecting and modernising long-lived products—spanning fibre-optic network design tools, media streaming systems and lab automation—where he led refactors, mentoring and DevOps transformations. Comfortable across low-level embedded code and cloud-native server work, Trent is notable for turning one-off prototypes into maintainable products and for improving developer workflows as much as product features.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Comp, Computer Science, B.Comp, Computer Science at Monash University
Github Skills (7)
go10
back-end-development10
testing10
amazon-dynamodb8
utf8
dynamodb8
documentation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 928 reviews, 600 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Trent's commits primarily focus on back-end development within the Teleport project. They modified existing backend implementations, adding validation, updating test suites, and improving code robustness. Their work also involves improving the project documentation, building instructions, and fixing bugs related to the existing implementation. The code changes indicate a good understanding of storage backends and testing practices.
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tcsc/levity
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:46 reviews, 12 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 month
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