Elan Hasson
Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Delray Beach, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolElan Hasson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Delray Beach, Florida, with 14 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and developer tooling. Currently at DigitalOcean after senior engineering roles at UKG and Ultimate Software, he combines hands-on backend development with leadership and operational rigor. An active open-source contributor, Elan has strengthened storage and attachment handling in JabbR, hardened Rancher integration error reporting in the Kubernetes autoscaler, and improved edge-case handling and packaging in the .NET Orleans framework—demonstrating a knack for making distributed systems more robust and maintainable. Earlier he ran a consulting business and led digital marketing engineering programs, building a proprietary marketing information system and managing multi-million-dollar budgets, which gives him a rare blend of technical depth and product/business insight. He began his career as a certified pharmacy technician, a background that reflects a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to complex problems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Palm Beach State CollegeCertificate, Digital Marketing, Certificate, Digital Marketing at Florida Atlantic University - College of Business
English
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Github Skills (47)
netframework4810
kubernetes10
orleans10
filesystem10
remote-actors10
file-systems10
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dotnet10
distributed-systems10
dotnet-new10
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file-system10
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/orleans
May 2015 - Aug 2022
Cloud Native application framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Elan primarily contributed to the backend of the Orleans framework. Their work involved fixing build paths, improving code quality by correcting spelling errors, and refactoring code to handle edge cases, such as zero CPU usage. They also implemented crucial features like removing the setting of `CpuLimit` when deltaTotalTime is zero and splitting Reminders out into its own package, enhancing the framework's functionality and maintainability. Additionally, the user addressed build and test issues related to paths with spaces.
dotnetconcurrencycloud-computingdistributed-actorsframework
kubernetes/autoscaler
Feb 2019 - Dec 2023
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 5 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Elan focused on improving error handling and message clarity within the Rancher cloud provider integration for the Kubernetes autoscaler. Their contributions involved refining error messages to expose underlying parsing issues and including relevant quantities in the error reporting. The changes primarily targeted the `rancher_nodegroup.go` file, indicating a focus on the Rancher cloud provider's node group management within the autoscaling component. The user fixed typos and corrected variable usage to improve code accuracy.
k8skubernetesautoscaling
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