Elben Shira
Software Engineer at Airtable
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolElben Shira is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and product features, currently contributing at Airtable from Austin, Texas. He has deep expertise in processing large-scale social media data pipelines, search infrastructure, and real-time systems developed across roles at Khoros (Spredfast/Mass Relevance) where he led teams, revived critical codebases, and shipped a ground-up Ads Solution. Comfortable in polyglot environments (Ruby, Scala, Spark, Solr) he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring junior engineers and cross-functional planning with PM and Design. His background includes research-grade work in autonomous vehicle path planning and production experience integrating numerous social APIs and the Twitter Firehose, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and production pragmatism. Known for reviving neglected systems and building fast, observable data jobs, he brings a practical focus on reliability and measurable metrics to product engineering.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate work for Master's Computer Science, Graduate work for Master's Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (86)
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rubiks-cube7
planet7
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
elben/carnival
Nov 2010 - Jul 2013
Contributions:39 commits in 2 years 9 months
elben/haskell-cs194
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 11 pushes in 8 months
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