Eli Schleifer
Founder, CEO at Trunk
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEli Schleifer is a founder and engineering leader with 11+ years building high-impact products from prototype to production, most recently founding Trunk to tackle developer productivity at scale. He led architecture for Uber ATG’s autonomy systems and previously scaled a 14-person team at YouTube after his startup Directr (co‑founder/CTO) was acquired by Google. A veteran of Microsoft’s “blue badge” engineering ranks, Eli blends low-level systems design, interactive product thinking, and rapid prototyping to simplify complex workflows—whether filmmaking or self-driving stacks. His work is informed by hands-on product ownership and a knack for finding inspiration in everyday moments (Directr’s idea came from a family bath‑time spark), and he’s equally at home sketching architectures or shipping customer-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Visual Arts, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Visual Arts at Columbia College, Columbia University
Hebrew, English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
trunk10
security10
automation10
visual-studio10
ascii10
linter10
linting10
home-assistant10
javascript10
mqtt10
editor10
formatters10
developer-tools10
home-automation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
trunk-io/mergequeue-staging
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
Demonstration of trunk.io/merge against trunk staging service
Contributions:16051 PRs, 30 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
trunk-io/breakpoint
May 2023 - Nov 2023
GitHub Action to set conditional breakpoints in CI jobs
Contributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 38 PRs in 5 months
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