# Clay McGinnis

> Founding Software Engineer @ Wherobots

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/claymcginnis

Building the future of geospatial data analysis at Wherobots. I joined Wherobots as the second engineer to build a company, not just a product. A few years later and our rapidly expanding team is Series A funded and adding customers and revenue. I am also the co-founder of Bloomin' Labs, a 4 person company building a distributed game server cloud with a slick desktop app to simplify the act of starting dedicated servers. Before Wherobots, I spent roughly 2 years at Amazon building Emergency Assistance and Roadside Assistance for Alexa. Experienced in UI/UX design and development, Next.js and React using TypeScript, Backend development in Python, Golang, and Java, Cloud Infrastructure on AWS, orchestration (and more) with Hashicorp Nomad/Consul/Vault, and Robotics and Real time systems from my time building autonomous drones.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Wherobots
Jan 2024 – Present | Bellevue, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ Wherobots
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Bellevue, Washington, United States

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Built full-stack emergency and non-emergency experiences for Alexa including Emergency Contact, Emergency Helpline, Roadside Assistance, and more. Utilized Java and TypeScript with React Native on the Alexa Mobile app.

### Chair - ACM Web @ Missouri S&T ACM
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Rolla, Missouri, United States

### Vice Chair - ACM Web @ Missouri S&T ACM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Rolla, MO

### Vice President of Internal Affairs @ Missouri S&T ACM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Rolla, MO
Managed 7 organization leads in funding and organizational efforts, and maintained time-lines for company talks, cybersecurity competitions, and instructional seminars with over 120 attendees

### Software Development Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Chief Software Engineer @ Multirotor Design Team
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Rolla, MO
I lead this team for 1 and 1/2 semesters and managed an incredible team of 40+ software developers in creating real-time autonomous software for a quadcopter and then an octocopter. Our accomplishments resulted in acceptance to the International Aerial Robotics Competition in 2019. Due to the coronavirus, our competition in 2020 was postponed, but I am ever proud of this team and the progress we made.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant - CEADS-LIN @ CEADS-LIN: Cybersecurity and Evolutionary Computing Research
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Rolla, MO
Research was instrumental to my learning experience in my undergraduate program. With the help of my research advisor Dr. Daniel Tauritz, as well as my colleagues, I worked on a real-time diagnosis dashboard for our laboratory. Built using React.js and TypeScript, it allows our team to view evolutionary algorithm progress inside containerized networks.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Edward Jones
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | St. Louis, MO
• Created full-stack updates for internal tool used 700,000 times per day in JavaScript and Java
• Performed inquiries and patches for long-standing bugs and stability issues affecting thousands of staff members


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/claymav
- Website: https://clay.sh
- GitHub: https://github.com/claymav

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Last updated: 2026-03-22