Elben Shira
Software Engineer at Airtable
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolElben Shira is a seasoned back-end software engineer with 16 years of experience delivering scalable web applications and data-processing systems. Based in Austin, TX, he currently builds backend capabilities at Airtable, focusing on distributed systems, data processing, and search infrastructure, with fluency across Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Python, and Java. He previously led and shaped critical backend initiatives at Khoros—driving the Ads Solution from concept to production, reviving legacy codebases, and architecting multi-node Solr clusters while mentoring engineers and sparking internal tech talks. His stack history spans MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, and streaming pipelines (including high-throughput Twitter Firehose processing). He is adept at turning complex requirements into robust, observable systems and thrives in multi-language environments and fast-paced product organizations. He holds a Computer Science degree from UT Austin and has a track record of shipping reliable software at scale.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate work for Master's Computer Science, Graduate work for Master's Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (90)
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rubiks-cube7
planet7
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
elben/carnival
Nov 2010 - Jul 2013
Contributions:39 commits in 2 years 9 months
elben/haskell-cs194
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 11 pushes in 8 months
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