# Dejay Clayton > Software Engineering Lead Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dejay I help companies build amazing software products at scale.  Having engineered systems that are enjoyed by tens of millions of users with billions of visits, I seek to work with exceptional teams to deliver stunning user experiences. ## Work Experience ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Wizards of the Coast Jan 2024 – Present Creating and delivering web tools used internally by Wizards to create consumer products that generate billions of dollars of annual revenue. Planned, engineered, and programmed internal CMS web products used for the creation of Magic: The Gathering cards, replacing legacy, bespoke systems. Implemented and integrated CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, logging, analytics, single sign-on, production troubleshooting, and deployment workflows. Created developer experience (DevEx) tools to simplify operations and maintenance. Improved team productivity and engineering excellence by refining and introducing critical engineering processes and workflows to a team that faced delivery challenges. Researched and implemented agentic AI-assisted engineering workflows and tools. Go (golang), React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Vite, Jest, HTML5, CSS3, Okta, PostgreSQL, Redis, GitLab, Datadog, ArgoCD, AWS, Python, OpenAI, Copilot, Claude ### Senior Software Engineer @ Upstart Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York, NY Delivered business-critical solutions for challenging technical initiatives by partnering with a diverse range of corporate stakeholders under tight timelines. Developed front-end features and backend integrations to improve the car purchasing experience for hundreds of thousands of customers through Upstart's online products and platforms for automobile digital retailing. Developed front-end product features, including highly-customized React modules to simplify a complex online shopping experience for car purchases. Integrated with over 20 external service providers for tax and payment calculations, customer management, dealership management, analytics, messaging, and more. Migrated over 20 internal and customer-facing products and services onto a more secure AWS infrastructure, without impacting production. Led the planning and delivery of a department's first SOX and SOC2 compliance initiative, updating our products and services to comply with security improvements. React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Storybook, Cypress, Jest, webpack, HTML5, CSS3, Java, AWS ### Senior Software Engineer @ Braze Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States Developed front-end features and backend integrations to ingest, process, and transform billions of incoming events per day, and send millions of outbound messages. Developed front-end product features, including highly-customized React modules for a complex online tool that allows marketers to design elaborate, automated marketing campaigns. Integrated with data warehouses to transform and export data for analytics, reporting, monitoring, and alerting. React, TypeScript, Node.js, Storybook, Cypress, Jest, webpack, HTML5, CSS3, Java, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Redis, NoSQL, Snowflake, AWS, Linux ### Senior Software Engineering Lead @ CNBC Jan 2011 – Jan 2020 | Englewood Cliffs, NJ Delivered challenging, revenue-critical projects under demanding deadlines while leading the software engineering activities of four to eight senior front-end developers, fostering a spirit of mentorship, responsibility, and collaboration by improving the culture and proficiency of our engineering teams. Led cross-team collaboration to improve product iteration and delivery, serving as technical expert for multiple, full-stack rewrites of CNBC’s architecture for cnbc.com. Developed front-end features and backend integrations, creating React components and web pages for CNBC's main website, cnbc.com, as well as branded microsites and interactive web applications, such as product comparison tools. Provided career planning, mentorship, training, performance reviews, and personnel management for full-time and contractor direct reports. Developed pipelines, workflows, and tools for the automated provisioning and CI/CD deployment of products and services on numerous platforms and technologies. Debugged challenging technical issues and complex end-to-end production errors. Received multiple NBCUniversal GEM Awards for excellence in engineering leadership. React, JavaScript, Node.js, Storybook, Jest, Redux, GraphQL, webpack, HTML5, CSS3, Java, AWS, MongoDB, Redis, PHP, MySQL, Apple TV, iOS, Android, Roku ### Mobile Software Development Manager @ HBO Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | New York, NY Led the software development and delivery of award-winning mobile products at HBO, providing technical leadership for the HBO Go app for iOS and Android, which received millions of downloads and subscriptions within three months of launch. Provided technical direction, guidance, code reviews, and architectural reviews to an external team of contractors who were responsible for implementing the HBO Go app. Provided career planning, mentorship, training, performance reviews, and personnel management for full-time direct reports. Collaborated with internal product and engineering teams to establish the long-term direction of our products and services. Established guidelines for quality control and the production support of consumer products. ### Mobile Software Development Manager @ The New York Times Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | New York, NY Led the software development and delivery of award-winning mobile products at The New York Times, forming and growing a mobile software development team of eight dedicated programmers. Developed front-end product features for nytimes.com, such as integration of a Netflix video player within The New York Time's Movies section, and mobile apps. Provided career planning, mentorship, training, performance reviews, and personnel management for full-time direct reports. Provided technical leadership for iPhone, iPad, iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Perl. ## Education ### Partial Completion of B.S. in Computing and Security Technology Drexel University ### Partial Completion of B.S. in Computer Science University of Delaware ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dejayclayton --- Source: https://flows.cv/dejay JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dejay/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05