Eli Block
Freelance Software Engineer at Freelance (Self employed)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEli Block is a freelance software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building full‑stack web applications, primarily using Ruby on Rails and React. He has led greenfield SaaS development at ModernTax—owning planning, APIs, SDKs, and launch—while also hiring and mentoring to accelerate delivery. Eli has deep practical experience integrating third‑party services and optimizing legacy systems from his work at Fountain and multiple freelance projects, including a pay‑per‑minute streaming platform and an MVP donation rewards site. Comfortable across the stack, he combines product-minded engineering with hands‑on implementation of account management, payments, and developer-facing APIs. His background in finance adds uncommon domain fluency for tax, payments, and marketplace products. Resourceful and product-focused, he thrives on turning ambiguous requirements into shippable, maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance at W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
Github Skills (19)
react-component-library10
react-components10
javascript10
microsoft10
ui-components10
typescript10
web-components10
component-library10
fluentui10
office-ui-fabric10
react10
api9
monorepo8
eslint8
rush8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
eliblock12/office-ui-fabric-react
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
microsoft/fluentui
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 months
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
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