Cliff Click is a highly accomplished leader, luminary, visionary, and team builder in the field of computer science. With a track record of building high-quality, highly-productive engineering teams, he is regarded as the highest-speed, hardest-core hacker around. Cliff has made significant contributions to several areas of computing, including operating systems, optimizing compilers, novel GC algorithms, clustered computing, distributed-computation language implementations, and lock-free algorithms, which are evident in his 20-odd patents and dozen peer-reviewed papers.

Graduating from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Cliff completed his Master's Degree and Doctorate in Computer Science at Rice University. Throughout his career, Cliff has held key roles in several high-profile technology companies, including his tenure as the CEO of Rocket Realtime School, CTO at CRATUS Technology, Inc., Founder of a Stealth-mode startup, CTO at Neurensic, CTO at 0xdata, Chief JVM Architect at Azul Systems, and Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

As a highly sought-after public speaker, he regularly wins "best of show" awards. Alongside his impressive professional accomplishments, Cliff is a single father of four, taking care of everything from cooking and cleaning to driving his children around.