Clay Goddard
Staff Software Engineer at FullStory
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolClay Goddard is a Staff Software Engineer based in Atlanta with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput services and APIs. He advanced through roles at Square and FullStory, shipping core Orders and authentication systems, microservices, and integrations that supported merchant payments and developer-facing APIs. Comfortable across JVM and Go services as well as web and mobile client flows, he’s delivered both backend resilience and user-facing security features like two-factor authentication. Clay’s background includes cross-platform visualization work at Microsoft and early full-stack experience with Python/Django, reflecting a breadth from low-level rendering to product-facing web apps. Known for taking ownership of critical systems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a capacity to simplify complex legacy integrations. Outside of product work, his teaching and internship roles show a longstanding interest in mentoring and practical developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (36)
postman10
solrcloud9
solr9
macos8
grpc8
linux8
windows8
javascript8
golang8
sql7
fullstory7
data-warehouse7
database7
embedded7
cpp7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
claygoddard/claygoddard.github.io
Feb 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:5 pushes in 6 years 3 months
fullstorydev/lucene-solr
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Contributions:34 reviews, 35 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 2 months
lucenesolr
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