Clay Shentrup is a well-versed software developer and technology executive with over a decade of experience in the industry. He specializes in Ruby on Rails development and has also worked with big data tools like Flume and Pig Latin.

He has worked in various startups, managing process and people to create a cohesive environment for developers to thrive. Clay takes pride in teaching engineers how to write better code with an emphasis on design patterns and refactoring. He also champions test-driven development, pair programming, and lean processes.

Clay has an educational background in computer engineering from the University of Kansas. He co-founded IPIQ and worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Allied World, as well as several other tech companies.