# Clay Rosenthal

> Software Engineer in MLOps/DevOps | Python, IaC, Kubernetes | Passionate about Climate

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

I am a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Robotics working on delivering state of the art AI to warehouse manipulation robots. I have lots of experience with Python, Terraform, AWS, and Bash scripting on Linux. I was part of the team at Covariant that moved to Amazon, and while at Covariant I was a Production Engineer helping keep our robots in the field up to date with the latest AI. I previously worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, working on automating various maintenance of cloud native products. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in June 2021, with a BS in Computer Engineering. When I was younger, I led my high school FIRST robotics team to a World Championship my senior year.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Making robots do better at Amazon

### Production Engineer @ Covariant
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Emeryville, California, United States
Managed a fleet of servers across the globe within our customers warehouses. Deployed various tools in the cloud to support all stakeholders. Orchestrated kubernetes clusters to train the most advanced robotics AI in the world.

### Site Reliability Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Created various tools to automate and improve the maintenance of Cloud NGFW for AWS.
Collaborated with developers, QA, and PMs to bring Cloud NGFW to every default AWS region within 6 months of release.

### Site Reliability Engineering Intern @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Automating responses to errors within our products and customers.

### SQA Automation Engineer Intern @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara
Automating tests to improve cyber-security and performance

### QA Engineering Intern @ Plex, Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Jose
Wrote software programs in Python to automate QA testing for emerging company that develops client server media system software.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

### Bellarmine College Preparatory


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/clay-rosenthal

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Last updated: 2026-03-29