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Clay Loveless

@clayloMember #4,673FounderL2
Founder / Principal Architect, lovelesslabs
Builds actionista · GitHub Actions agent skill - helps create, review, and optimize workflows with up-to-date
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Pinned projects

actionista
Repo · 3 stars · Shell
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GitHub Actions agent skill - helps create, review, and optimize workflows with up-to-date action versions and best practices
agent-skillclaude-plugingithub-actions
bito
Repo · 0 stars · Rust
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Quality gate tooling for building-in-the-open artifacts
documentation-toollintmcpmcp-serverreadability
claylo-marketplace
Repo · 0 stars
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Tools worth the tokens. A curated Claude Code plugin marketplace.
claude-code-marketplaceclaude-code-plugins
custody
Repo · 0 stars · Rust
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Deterministic evidence validation for LLM summaries of PDF sources
clievidencellmmarkdownocr
navel
Repo · 3 stars · Shell
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Introspection toolkit for examining Claude Code internals
claudeclaude-aiclaude-codeclaude-code-docs

About

Clay Loveless is Founder and Principal Architect of lovelesslabs in Oberlin, and builds developer tools for agentic coding workflows. Clay co-founded Mashery in 2006, helped create the API management category, and has shipped code for the web since the late 1990s. Recent open source work includes actionista, a GitHub Actions agent skill for creating and reviewing workflows, and bito, a quality gate tool for building-in-the-open artifacts.

Stack

OllamaClaudeChatGPT3 tools

Raises & exits

Member Raises
Acquired by Intel · 2013 · Co-founder & Chief Architect
$180M
Intel's 2013 purchase of Mashery was reported at about $180M, though neither company disclosed the terms and a separate ReadWrite estimate put it between $120M and $180M.

Experience

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Founder / Principal Architect · Stealth Startups, Consulting, Platform Projects
Apr 2020 – PresentCurrent
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Founder Principal Architect · Avance Consulting
Apr 2020 – PresentCurrent
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Vice President, Cloud Operations · Metisentry
Jul 2019 – Mar 2020
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Senior Director, Paas Architecture · Tibco Software Inc.
Jun 2016 – Jan 2019
5S
Interim Chief Technology Officer · 500 Startups Portfolio Companies
Jan 2011 – Jun 2016
MI
Co-Founder & Chief Architect · Mashery, Inc.
Jun 2006 – Dec 2010
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Senior Software Engineer · Feedster, Inc.
Sep 2005 – Apr 2006
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VP Technology · Eruptor Entertainment
Dec 1999 – Sep 2001
Imported from LinkedIn.