Chris Clark
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Clark is a pragmatic engineer with 12 years building production systems across fintech, crypto, and cloud platforms, blending functional programming (Haskell) with practical stacks like Node/TypeScript, Python, and C. He helped create the world’s first Lightning-based USD↔BTC exchange and led core Ripple JavaScript library and NodeJS work for crypto banking settlement, showing a strong focus on reliability in financial systems. A founder of a self-hosted app-store platform and an early Bloomberg developer on mortgage cash‑flow engines, he pairs product-minded engineering with systems and Linux administration skills. Based in San Francisco, his academic background in physics and mathematics informs a methodical approach to complex problems and an ongoing interest in combining functional abstractions with real-world distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S; B.A Physics; Mathematics, B.S; B.A Physics; Mathematics at University of RochesterUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
1,451reputation
60kreached
3answers
1question
dropbox
top-1%
Github Skills (143)
programming-language10
cryptocurrency10
haskell10
crypto10
javascript10
cryptocurrencies10
pythonic10
signing10
xrp10
api10
payment10
lazy-evaluation10
ripple10
typescript10
dropbox10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
clark800/config
May 2015 - May 2025
Contributions:48 pushes in 10 years 1 month
clark800/bigint-base-converter
Mar 2014 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 9 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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