Eli Itah
Senior Software Developer at Spantree Technology Group, LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEli Itah is a Senior Software Developer in Chicago with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems using Go, Terraform, React, Node, GraphQL, ElasticSearch and AWS/GCP. At Spantree he serves as a subject-matter expert on GCP and infrastructure-as-code, recently leading exploration of self-hosted GitHub Actions runners optimized for GPU ML workloads. He has a demonstrated track record delivering high-availability platforms and migrations—over 3,000 commits in a year at a health-care startup—and mentoring engineers across teams. A pragmatic problem-solver with roots in both backend systems and front-end UX, he pairs deep operational knowledge with an ability to modernize legacy stacks. Outside of engineering he’s active in the Chicago LGBT tech community and brings a background in counseling that informs his collaborative, people-focused approach to team leadership.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Hadoop; Certificate in Java Programming, Certificate in Hadoop; Certificate in Java Programming at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology General at Reed CollegeM.S. Ed. Mental Health Counseling/Counselor, M.S. Ed. Mental Health Counseling/Counselor at Northern Illinois University
cobol, db2, tsql, java, hadoop, nodejs, vanilla javascript, apigee api platform, react
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Github Skills (145)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eitah/dotfiles
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Fresh iteration of eitah dotfiles for 2022 and beyond.
Contributions:2 PRs, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
eitah/lenslocked
Nov 2021 - Aug 2023
A tutorial app from calhoun.io
Contributions:2 PRs, 97 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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