Cliff Hazelton is a software engineer at Kestrel, a part of Boeing's Intelligence Systems Group.  Cliff's primary responsibility is creating and maintaining web applications using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and jQuery/JavaScript.  In addition, he is proficient in many aspects of software development such as Linux/UNIX programming, shell scripting, C, Scala, Java, MySQL, Test-Driven Development, Agile Software methodologies, Continuous Integration, Git, Subversion, and both VIM and Emacs.

In 2009, Cliff graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a Masters in Computer Science.  In his previous life, he was a physicist working for the Army.