Elam Torres
CTO CoFounder at ControlDoc
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolElam Torres is a technology-savvy finance leader and co-founder who blends 11 years of software engineering and executive experience to run both product and finance at ControlDoc. As CTO and CFO, he builds and mentors engineering teams, ships APIs and features, and implements scalable financial processes that guide strategic decision-making and cash-flow optimization. He has hands-on experience automating operations—having built multifunctional platforms with Ruby on Rails during a client downturn—and uses pair programming and cross-functional design work to keep product development tightly aligned with customer needs. Elam excels at translating technical trade-offs into financial impact, negotiating team conflicts, and instituting governance that supports growth from early-stage to market consolidation. Based in Toronto, he combines developer grit with CFO discipline to create efficient, data-driven finance and engineering operations. An underrated strength is his comfort shifting between coding, mentoring, and high-level budgeting, making him a pragmatic bridge between product and the boardroom.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering software developer, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering software developer at Universidad Centro Occidental 'Lisandro Alvarado'
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (41)
shared9
rspec9
activemodel9
elastic8
ruby-on-rails8
mongoid8
rails8
ruby8
one-liner8
testing8
autocomplete7
elasticsearch6
activerecord6
mongodb6
django-views6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ElamT/jasper-rails
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 9 months
ruby-on-railsrailsjasperreportsruby
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