Andrew Elkins
Construction Management at Palisades Construction
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Elkins is a multidisciplinary builder who blends 12 years of hands-on operational leadership, data science rigor, and startup product execution to take ideas from 0→1. He co-founded and ran operations, fundraising, and GTM for Legends of Venari—raising $5.4M and delivering ~$1.5M in early digital-asset sales—while coordinating distributed engineering, design, and community teams. Trained as a computational and systems biologist at UCLA, he built reproducible data pipelines and translated complex biological models into actionable insights for cross-disciplinary stakeholders. His early kitchen and service-industry experience inform a disciplined, people-first approach to process and team cohesion under pressure. Andrew is also an active backend contributor to open-source projects like arrow (Python datetime tooling) and Laravel Entrust, demonstrating practical engineering chops alongside product and ops leadership. Based in Los Angeles, he currently consults with early-stage founders and leads construction management, uniquely bridging boots-on-the-ground execution with analytical and go-to-market strategy.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
16reputation
30reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (15)
datetime10
php10
datetime-format10
datetimes10
laravel10
date-manipulation10
python10
laravel-mix10
testing10
arrow-js9
arrows9
apache-arrow9
configuration-management9
phpunit8
git7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Zizaco/entrust
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
Role-based Permissions for Laravel 5
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 90 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the backend of the Laravel-based Entrust package, focusing on role and permission management. Their work involved modifying core files like `EntrustRoleTrait.php`, `EntrustPermissionTrait.php`, and `EntrustUserTrait.php`, and also included changes in configuration files. They also made changes to the migration files, including the setup and fixing of issues. The user also updated the README.md.
laravel
arrow-py/arrow
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
🏹 Better dates & times for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 133 commits, 130 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `arrow-py/arrow` repository, focusing on date and time manipulation in Python. Their contributions included simplifying time checks and formatting within the `arrow/formatter.py` and `arrow/parser.py` files. They also integrated changes from other branches and updated test cases to ensure ISO format parsing and formatting were accurate. Finally, they were involved in merging new features and updating the version number of the library.
pythonarrowdatetimetimestamp
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