Clinton B.

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Clinton Brown Senior Full Stack Engineer Murfreesboro, TN | (539) 369-4726 | [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/clinton-brown-29a090414/ Summary Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, developing, evaluating, and scaling high-performance backend systems using Scala, Kotlin, OCaml, and Java. Expert in functional and object-oriented programming, including immutability, higher-order functions, effect systems, structured concurrency, type-safe design, and modular architecture. Extensive experience building distributed systems, data-processing platforms, event- driven architectures, low-latency APIs, and large-scale production services. Strong background in Scala ecosystems including Akka, Cats Effect, ZIO, and Apache Spark, as well as Kotlin backend development with Coroutines, Ktor, and Spring Boot. Experienced with OCaml-based tooling and strongly typed functional systems emphasizing correctness, maintainability, and compile-time guarantees. Proven ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar codebases, work effectively within Docker and CI-driven environments, evaluate technical implementations, review complex code changes, investigate automated test failures, and produce clear written assessments explaining correctness, performance tradeoffs, and language- idiomatic design decisions. Skills Languages: Scala, Kotlin, OCaml, Java, Python, SQL, Bash/Shell Frameworks: Akka, Ktor, Spring Boot, gRPC, REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE Libraries/APIs: Ca