Clifford Chinn
Staff Software Engineer at Freelance | Self-Employed
Kenmore, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolClifford Chinn is a Staff Software Engineer with two decades of experience building distributed systems, real-time platforms, and production-grade front-end experiences across gaming, cloud, and enterprise domains. He has delivered scalable services and UX at Blizzard, Microsoft, Rockstar, Rivian, and Activision Blizzard, with deep hands-on expertise in observability, reliability, and React/TypeScript interfaces. Clifford excels at evolving platform architecture to improve developer velocity and system maintainability, often surfacing tooling and automation to remove friction for engineering teams. He’s comfortable navigating ambiguity—mentoring engineers, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and addressing privacy or legal constraints when shipping features. Known for spotting developer pain points, he routinely builds pragmatic solutions (browser extensions, import validation tooling) that reduce human error and speed delivery. Based in Kenmore, WA, he combines product-focused front-end craft with backend systems thinking, particularly for real-time and cross-team platform challenges.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, technical Communication, Bachelors of Science, technical Communication at University of Washington
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Github Skills (15)
discord-bot8
encoder4
file-format4
absolute3
c993
decoding3
decoder3
encoding3
world-of-warcraft2
hdr2
avif1
openexr1
luminance1
youtube1
discord1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TEAMCHINA/teamchina.github.io
May 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
TEAMCHINA/Chinabot
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
Discord bot prototype.
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes in 2 years 5 months
discord-bot
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