Eli Fitch
Staff Software Engineer at Figma
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Fitch is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building highly interactive, user-centered web products, now shaping platform and UI work at Figma after leading engineering teams there and at Mapbox. He blends deep front-end craftsmanship—WebGL, shader programming, performance tuning, and "GoodCSS"—with a track record of growing diverse, inclusive teams and fostering transparent, vulnerable communication. Comfortable toggling between hands-on coding and people leadership, Eli has moved from senior engineer and tech lead roles into management and back to staff-level engineering, bringing product empathy and technical rigor. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs an interdisciplinary academic background in Chinese and Economics with a playful creative streak (and an unabashed affection for Koffing), reflecting both curiosity and a lighthearted, human approach to team culture.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
International Business, International Business at Maastricht UniversityB.A East Asian Studies (Chinese) & Economics double major, B.A East Asian Studies (Chinese) & Economics double major at Oberlin College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (68)
tiles10
mapbox-gl10
geojson10
svg10
3d10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
browser10
monorepo10
maps10
directive10
webgl10
range-slider10
vector-tiles10
vector10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elifitch/am-i-a-real-developer
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 8 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 2 months
determinejavascripttypescript
elifitch/whirlwind-tour-of-web-performance
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 64 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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