Devon Estes
Team Lead Backend Engineering at BEAT81
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDevon Estes is a seasoned backend engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently heading the backend team at BEAT81 in Berlin. He blends hands-on Elixir expertise—contributing to flagship projects like elixir-lang/elixir and tools such as benchee and credo—with strong cross-team leadership from roles at Remote, Forza FC and Sketch. Devon has a track record of shipping reliable distributed systems, building integrations and APIs, and improving developer tooling and observability. He’s comfortable both mentoring engineers and diving into tricky bug fixes or performance work, like adding concurrent materialized view refreshes and refining system info gathering in benchmarking tooling. Unusually for a senior engineering manager, he also has formal musical training (Master of Music in Opera), reflecting a disciplined, creative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Voice, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Voice at Duquesne UniversityMaster of Music Opera, Master of Music Opera at Manhattan School of Music
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Github Skills (35)
static-code-analysis10
ruby-rails10
benchmark10
erlang10
postgresql10
elixir10
testing10
databases10
benchmarking10
rails10
ruby10
sql10
linter10
activerecord10
database10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/elixir
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Exercism exercises in Elixir.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 162 PRs, 120 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Devon contributed several Elixir exercises to the Exercism platform. They added exercises like "beer-song" and "bowling," implementing the core logic and test suites for these problems. Furthermore, they made adjustments to the existing exercises by refactoring code, normalizing file names and updating dependencies. These contributions focused on creating and maintaining exercises related to Elixir.
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bencheeorg/benchee
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir providing you with lots of statistics!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 107 commits, 96 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Devon contributed significantly to the Benchee project by implementing and refactoring system information gathering features. They added functions to retrieve Elixir and Erlang versions, OS information, CPU speed, and available memory. Furthermore, the user wrote tests for the new functions, ensuring their correct implementation. The user refactored the codebase, extracting common functionality, and provided Linux system info.
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