Brad Clawsie

Austin, TX | brad.clawsie@gmail.com | https://github.com/bradclawsie

Seasoned Software Architect and Engineering Lead | Expertise in Go, Distributed Systems, and LLM-Driven Development

Expertise: Go, Rust, LLM/Agentic (Codex, Claude), Distributed Systems, Threat Detection.

Tools & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, Docker, Postgres, Spanner, DynamoDB, Performance Tuning.

Cisco Systems Senior Software Engineer (Remote from Austin, TX)
October 2019-Present

Led billion+ token refactoring and optimization through Codex and Claude, achieving ninety percent test coverage of a legacy codebase in support of quality assurance for critical DNS infrastructure.
Architecture and launch of an osquery-based enterprise threat detection system critical for real-time security compliance and auditability across organizations.
Architecture of security disposition infrastructure handling tens of billions of requests daily.
Management of AWS resources for globally-critical DNS infrastructure.

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

Architected concurrent, distributed build and test tooling handling terabytes of autonomous vehicle simulation data for Cruise’s entire test fleet, resulting in improved autonomous performance while reducing cloud resource costs.

Advanced Innovations Group, IBM Inc. Senior Software Engineer San Jose, CA
October 2015-April 2017

Secured patent grant for Go Ethereum-based contract technology for work distribution to embedded devices.

Smugmug.com Senior Software Engineer Mountain View, CA
February 2009-October 2015

Sole architect of a full analytics system (backend + frontend) for customer statistics.
Production launch of business-critical payment mechanisms with international currency support enabling expansion of commerce into new markets.
Architecture and development of a SDK and proxy for Amazon's DynamoDB in Go when both were pre-release. Featured as a showcase topic at AWS Re:Invent 2013.

Yahoo! Technical Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA
May 1996-February 2009

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.

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

I am a naturalized US citizen.