Michael Clayton is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud and developer-facing systems. A Purdue Computer Science graduate, he has driven platform and ecosystem work at Cadence and Procore after building IoT cloud capabilities at Salesforce. Michael combines deep engineering craft with a passion for continuous learning and developer experience, often tackling cross-team integration and API-first problems. Comfortable in both startup-like delivery and large enterprise contexts, he brings a track record of shipping robust services that support third-party extensibility. He’s equally at home mentoring engineers and diving into low-level technical details to unblock product momentum.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Purdue University
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