Eli Hooten
CTO Co-Founder at With Line
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Hooten is a seasoned engineering leader and founder who blends hands-on software development with strategic product and team leadership, currently serving as CTO and Co-Founder of With Line after leading Codecov through acquisition by Sentry. He has a track record of scaling technical teams from a few engineers to dozens, shipping developer-focused tooling, and driving revenue-generating products from his time as CTO of GameWisp. With a PhD in Computer Science focused on human-robot and human-computer interaction, Eli brings a research-informed perspective to designing intuitive developer and user experiences. He routinely spans front-end, back-end, security, and devops concerns while acting as a technical customer-facing partner. Based in Huntsville, Alabama, he combines startup founder grit with enterprise integration experience. An unusual strength is his background in robotics and HCI, which informs pragmatic UI and workflow decisions in developer tooling.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics at Murray State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
c++, qt, javascript, ruby (on rails), lisp, php
Stackoverflow
994reputation
162kreached
20answers
12questions
Github Skills (123)
react-boilerplate10
starter-kit10
sentry10
python10
sendmail10
uploader10
testing10
coverage10
e-mail10
mailer10
php-library10
monitoring10
error-logging10
test-coverage10
seo10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
codecov/feedback
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
A place to discuss feedback about the pull request and web product experience.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
codecov/opentelem-laravel
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
A WIP exporter for Laravel to capture and export opentelem data.
Contributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year 1 month
exporterlaravelwipexport
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