Elan Hasson
Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Delray Beach, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolElan Hasson is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and leading engineering teams, currently at DigitalOcean. He has a history of driving practical improvements in large codebases—contributing to notable open-source projects like Kubernetes autoscaler and the .NET Orleans framework—focusing on reliability, error handling, and edge-case robustness. Elan pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership from prior Principal and Technical Lead roles at UKG and Ultimate Software, and earlier founded consulting firms delivering custom software and digital marketing solutions. He brings a rare blend of infrastructure and marketing analytics experience, having built a proprietary marketing information system that drove attribution and budgeting decisions. Comfortable across cloud providers and storage systems, he’s known for pragmatic refactors and clear error reporting that make systems easier to operate. Based in Delray Beach, FL, he balances deep technical craft with a knack for translating business needs into maintainable, scalable systems.
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 (38)
kubernetes10
orleans10
filesystem10
remote-actors10
net10
dotnet10
distributed-systems10
dotnet-new10
file-operations10
netframework10
asp-net10
go10
fileio10
kubernetes-pods10
dotnet-core10
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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