Summary
Clayton Harbour is a founder and principal engineer with 23 years of experience building high-performance backend and platform systems across telecom, games, healthcare, and AI-native publishing. He prefers hard problems, clear signals, and systems that hold up under real load, and has repeatedly improved observability, automation, and performance for services supporting millions of users. Clayton built ProseForge end-to-end — architecting a Go/Postgres platform with Git-backed content versioning, cloud media integrations, and native mobile apps — after leading performance engineering at AccelByte where he scaled tooling and load tests for 1M+ concurrent users. His toolkit spans Go, Java, Python, k6, Grafana, and IaC, and he has a track record of shrinking profiling and test cycles from weeks to minutes. An introverted engineer with a practical, product-oriented mindset, he combines deep systems craft with a history of shipping reliable, operable products. Based in Vancouver, he also brings early roots in open source and unusually broad domain experience from behavioral therapy to live-service games.
23 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Alberta
Diploma Computer Analyst, Diploma Computer Analyst at CDI
n/a Computer Science, n/a Computer Science at The University of Lethbridge