Chris Clifton is a software engineer with six years of experience building and maintaining full-stack Ruby on Rails applications at RTS Labs. He blends modern Rails practices (Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus) with hands-on experience in legacy stacks using Sinatra and jQuery, and is comfortable across SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Tailwind CSS, and AWS/Unix ops. Based in Richmond, VA, he delivers pragmatic solutions that prioritize stability and incremental modernization for production systems. Trained in computer software engineering at Launch School after a BA in Political Science, he brings a disciplined, analytical mindset to engineering trade-offs and team collaboration. Notably, his skill set spans both front-end UX polish and back-end reliability, making him effective at bridging product needs and technical constraints.
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