Eli Morris-heft
Principal Front-End Engineer at AllSpice.io
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Morris-heft is a Principal Front-End Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient web applications, developer tools, and engineering organizations from startup to enterprise. He blends hands-on front-end expertise—contributing to projects like CanJS and improving documentation for the DocumentJS engine—with proven leadership in roles at 1Password and Grubhub where he shipped infra upgrades, observability, and internal tooling that measurably reduced toil. Comfortable embracing ambiguity, he has created incident response programs, automated deployments to near-zero developer effort, and organized large technical events, all while mentoring engineers into management. Based in Acton, MA, Eli pairs a linguistics BA with a user-centered mindset, believing every technical solution should start by solving a human need.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Linguistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (9)
markdown10
javascript10
markdown-it10
ejs10
documentation10
canjs10
testing9
dom8
css5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canjs/canjs
Nov 2012 - Dec 2014
Build CRUD apps in fewer lines of code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:87 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eli primarily focused on improving the functionality and test coverage of the canjs framework. They addressed issues related to observe/delegate selectors, indirectly recursive EJS templates, and the live binding of select elements. The user also added tests for various EJS rendering scenarios.
linesjavascriptframeworkcrudlines-of-code
bitovi/documentjs
Apr 2013 - May 2013
The sophisticated documentation engine
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Eli primarily focused on improving the documentation for the `documentjs` project, a documentation engine. Their commits include updates to the core documentation file (`documentjs.js`), modifications to the tag definitions, and changes to the site's CSS. The user added examples and clarified the use of various directives, demonstrating a clear focus on enhancing the documentation's clarity and usability.
markdownengine
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