Hi, I’m Clinford

From pixels to pipelines: full‑stack engineering for global products.

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years in global fintech and travel, working from frontend platforms to data pipelines. I build telemetry, developer tooling and full-stack systems, and I like closing the gap between a fast interface and a resilient backend.

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Frontend infrastructure
Full-stack architecture
AI tooling

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Clinford Jordano Valencia, Senior Software Engineer

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focus: Frontend infrastructure · Full-stack architecture · AI tooling

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status: Currently at Binance. Happy to talk about mentoring, talks and engineering

Tools I work with

React
TypeScript
React Native
Zustand
WebSocket
Mini Program
System design
SDK development
Developer experience
Node.js
REST & GraphQL
Flink
PostgreSQL
AWS
Playwright
Vitest
Code review
Prompt engineering
RAG
React
TypeScript
React Native
Zustand
WebSocket
Mini Program
System design
SDK development
Developer experience
Node.js
REST & GraphQL
Flink
PostgreSQL
AWS
Playwright
Vitest
Code review
Prompt engineering
RAG

Next.js
Vue.js
Redux
TanStack Query
Tailwind CSS
Frontend architecture
Schema-driven UI
Design systems
RFCs & ADRs
Java
Kafka
ClickHouse
Redis
Core Web Vitals
Jest
CI/CD
LLM workflows
Automated triage bots
Next.js
Vue.js
Redux
TanStack Query
Tailwind CSS
Frontend architecture
Schema-driven UI
Design systems
RFCs & ADRs
Java
Kafka
ClickHouse
Redis
Core Web Vitals
Jest
CI/CD
LLM workflows
Automated triage bots

Selected Work

Products I’ve Helped Build

All projects

PlatformWebMobile

Signal, a Real-Time Telemetry Platform

A typed frontend SDK and event pipeline that gave Binance's global KYC funnels real-time visibility, cutting incident diagnosis from days to minutes.

TypeScript
Mini Program
BFF
Kafka

< 5 mintime to detect, from 24–72 hours

AIPlatform

Oncall Bot and Frontend Monitoring

Relative-change alerting on ClickHouse telemetry plus an LLM-assisted chat bot that turns an alert into a probable root cause, in the thread where the team already works.

ClickHouse
Alerting service
LLM API
Kubernetes

< 5 mintime to detect, from hours or days

MobileWeb

NFC and eKYC Integrations

Custom React wrappers around native NFC bridges and a resilient scan state machine that lifted Japan JPKI pass rates by 15 points and Android by 14.

React
React Native bridge
State machines
NFC

+15 ppJapan JPKI pass rate (25% → 40%)

PlatformWebMobile

KYC Studio, Schema-Driven Flows

A config-driven UI platform with Git-based config-as-code, so compliance changes ship in hours without a frontend deploy.

TypeScript
jsonform
Mini Program
Git

Weeks → hoursmulti-market compliance updates

Experience

Where I’ve Been Building

Full experience

Mar 2025 – Present
Senior Frontend Engineer
Binance
Global identity verification and compliance products: eKYC, native NFC integrations, telemetry and developer tooling.
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Mini Program
- Node.js
- Kafka
- ClickHouse
May 2018 – Mar 2025
Software Engineer (Web)
Traveloka
Frontend platform, modernization and web performance for accommodation partner products and a React Native messaging platform.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- React Native
- Redux
- Jest
Aug 2024 – Jan 2025
Mentor
ADPList
Free one-to-one mentoring for early-career engineers.
Feb 2016 – Nov 2017
Laboratory Teaching Assistant (Periodic)
Bank Central Asia (BCA Learning Institute)
Taught BCA scholarship students in the PPTI programme, in collaboration with BINUS University.
Sep 2014 – Feb 2018
Teaching Assistant to Operations Management Officer
BINUS University, Software Laboratory Center
Taught programming, web development and databases, then coordinated subjects and ran lab operations.