Zac Clifton

New Albany, Indiana, United States

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Zac Clifton is a seasoned software architect and platform engineer with seven years of experience designing high-scale, resilient systems for both startups and regulated enterprises. He has architected pipelines that process over a million jobs per second using Pulsar/Kafka, BullMQ, NestJS, and AWS, and built AI-driven features like ChatGPT on LangChain with vector search and multilingual dialect-aware internationalization at Novu. Zac has led enterprise Kubernetes platform strategy and SRE practices—authoring GitOps-backed, CRD-driven self-service platforms and audit-ready policies across hybrid environments at Waystar and Waystar-scale operations experience. Proficient across languages from Rust and Go to Java/Kotlin and TypeScript, he blends deep systems design with practical DevOps, observability, and security hardening. An active full-stack contributor to Novu’s open-source notification platform, he improves developer experience and deployment flexibility while mentoring and enabling large engineering teams. Off-hours he channels the same precision into flying as a certified private pilot and into endurance-focused outdoor pursuits.

7 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Indiana University Southeast

Certificate, Quantum Computing, Certificate, Quantum Computing at The Coding School

Github Skills (16)

typescript10

javascript10

typescripts10

typescript-types10

api-design9

react9

environment-variables9

notification9

nodejs9

apim9

api8

back-end-development8

apidoc8

front-end-development8

infrastructure7

Programming languages (18)

MDXC#PowerShellJavaC++RustVueGo

Github contributions (5)

novuhq/novu

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023

The open-source notification Inbox infrastructure. E-mail, SMS, Push and Slack Integrations.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:257 reviews, 9 commits, 176 PRs in 4 months

Contributions summary:Zac's contributions primarily focused on implementing features and making changes across the frontend, backend, and infrastructure of the Novu project. The user modified the codebase to incorporate environment-specific configurations and context paths, improving the application's modularity and deployment flexibility. They also made changes to various components across multiple applications, including the API, WebSocket, and Widget applications, to support environment variable usage and correct dependency issues. Additionally, changes include improvements to the developer experience within the project, such as changes to build scripts.

jsvue-reactnotificationsvuereactjs

Open-Idempotency/Open-Idempotency-System

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023

Main repository for the Open-Idempotency System

Contributions:55 commits, 43 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 months

idempotencyrediscassandrafirestorerust

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