Brad Clawsie
Austin, TX
brad.clawsie@gmail.com | https://b7j0c.org/ | https://github.com/bradclawsie

Overview

Accomplished software engineer with extensive expertise spanning the full lifecycle of online service infrastructure.

Skills and Strengths

• LLM/Agentic Development: Billion+ tokens through Codex, Claude.
• Programming languages: Go, Rust, C++, C, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python.
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, Docker, Compose, Google Cloud.
• Security: Threat detection, rapid analytics assessment, digital loss prevention, email analysis, DNS protection.
• Systems: Postgres, Spanner, MySQL, SQLite, DynamoDB, Redis, Linux administration.
• Practices:Prototyping, performance tuning, analytics.

Professional Experience Highlights

Cisco Systems (Remote from Austin, TX)
October 2019-July 2026

• Drove billion+ token refactoring and optimization through Codex and Claude.
• Architecture and development of an osquery-based threat detection system.
• Development of Cisco Secure Endpoint client disposition resolution infrastructure.
• Development of Cisco Email Threat Detection malware containment system.
• Development of Cisco Umbrella DNS enterprise domain name resolver.
• Key Skills: Go, C, gRPC, GraphQL, CockroachDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, AWS.

Cruise Automation San Francisco, CA (Remote from Austin, TX)
March 2018-March 2019

• Development of distributed build and test tooling for autonomous vehicle simulation.
• Key Skills: Go, gRPC, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Spanner, Redis, AWS, Google Cloud, operations.

Advanced Innovations Group, IBM Inc. San Jose, CA
Oct 2015-April 2017

• Development of Go Ethereum-based contract technology for work distribution to embedded devices (patent grant).
• Key Skills: Whole-system, design, Go, Postgres, ReST APIs, Javascript.

SmugMug.com Mountain View, CA
Feb 2009-Oct 2015

• Architecture and development of a full analytics system for customer photo statistics.
• Development of payment mechanisms with international currency support.
• Architecture and development of a SDK and proxy for Amazon's DynamoDB in Go.
• Key Skills: Whole-system design, Go, MySQL, AWS, DynamoDB, C++, ReST APIs, Perl.

Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA
May 1996-Feb 2009

• Employee #83, group of first dozen engineers to bootstrap Yahoo.
• Creator of Yahoo! News, rated as a global top-traffic news site.

Portfolio

• AWS Re:Invent 2013 presentation: "Migrating from MySQL to DynamoDB" (pics, video/slides).
• Patents regarding decentralized IoT applications involving blockchain and software radio.
• Notable Open Source Contributions:
  • awsv4-cpp: AWS v4 signing in C++11
  • godynamo: a Go SDK for Amazon DynamoDB, featured as a showcase topic at AWS Re:Invent 2013.

Education

B.Sc Computer Science, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada 1994.

I am a naturalized US citizen.