David Elliott
Staff Software Engineer at Hadrian
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Elliott is a Staff Software Engineer in Los Angeles with 17 years of experience building reliable backend systems and operational practices for complex, high-volume environments. He has driven platform improvements and migrations at scale—most notably leading a 4x faster RDS upgrade program and creating robust automation and runbooks at Stitch Fix. A pragmatic engineering leader, he introduced SLO methodologies, founded an Operators Working Group, and blends hands-on coding (RPC frameworks, Rails/Ruby/Go interoperability) with mentorship and onboarding. His background spans enterprise platform work, OLAP event processing for warehouse operations, and earlier creative/academic roles in game and media arts, which inform a user-centered, experimental approach to system design. Colleagues know him for turning operational pain points into repeatable, well-documented processes that scale across organizations.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Design + Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Design + Technology at San Francisco Art InstituteUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (59)
consumer-driven-contracts10
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
pact10
test-framework9
binaries9
stimulusjs9
contract9
homebrew9
ruby-on-rails9
cli9
macos9
rust9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
taboularasa/exercism
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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