# Brian Clanton

> Software Engineer @ Descript

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brianclanton

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Descript
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Engineering Intern @ Zynga
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California
- Worked on localization for the web version of Words With Friends
- Collaborated with a group of five interns to design and demo an award winning game concept
- Programmed using JavaScript, C#, Grunt

### Programmer @ Animatron
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
- Startup animation software company 
- Created networked multiplayer video games using the animation engine 
- Participated in UI, UX, and feature discussions for the first release of the animation tool 
- Programmed using JavaScript, Node.js, Socket.io, MongoDB, player.js (Animatron engine) 
- Learned to use GIT following the git-flow model

### Intern Researcher @ National Institute of Standards & Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Gaithersburg, MD
- Part of the NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program 
- Created an interactive web application for displaying 3D mathematical functions 
- Gained proficiency in Bash scripting, GLSL, and Three.js

### Programmer @ Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | College Park, MD
- Created a website for displaying server status information 
- Gained proficiency in jQuery, Java Servlets, and OpenJMS

### Intern Programmer @ Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | College Park, MD
- Created a web application for displaying results of sessions within a simulation video game 
- Gained proficiency in Flex, ActionScript 3, and Subversion


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Game Design and Development
Rochester Institute of Technology

### Montgomery Blair High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bclanton
- Portfolio: http://brianclanton.com
- Portfolio: http://blog.brianclanton.com
- Portfolio: http://brianclanton.com/portfolio

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Last updated: 2026-04-10