Eli Schiff
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEli Schiff is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and cost-optimization tooling. At Datadog he writes Apache Spark pipelines and led the rearchitecture of a container cost monitoring system into a multi-cloud offering, cutting job latency by 50% and contributing to seven-figure annual savings through infrastructure optimizations. He has deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, EMR/Dataproc, and cross-cloud integrations for AWS, Azure, and GCP, and frequently mentors new hires. Earlier work spans front-end performance tuning, backend Python services, and contributions to open-source grading tooling where he focused on UI bug fixes and usability improvements. Eli combines pragmatic engineering with operational cost awareness, routinely turning performance wins into measurable business impact. He studied Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and brings an engineer’s attention to both low-level code and large-scale system design.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTrinity School, NYC
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Github Skills (9)
debug10
php10
twig10
back-end-development10
autograd7
auto-generate7
user-interface7
ed255196
database-management5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Submitty/Submitty
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Homework Submission, Automated Grading, and TA grading system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 116 commits, 101 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Eli primarily contributed to bug fixes within the Submitty platform. Their work included resolving issues related to the forum bar, footer elements, and the office hours queue, as well as addressing issues related to TAGrading. They made changes to improve the user interface. The changes show modifications to the code base including PHP and Twig files.
reactsubmittygrading-systemhomework-serverteaching-tools
rpi-cs-discord/Rubber-Duck
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:86 commits, 11 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 months
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