Eli Sutton
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Volkswagen Group
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Sutton is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in New York with five years of formal experience and a longer track record of shipping complex, production-grade systems across Amazon, Uber, Meta, and Volkswagen. He leads globally distributed teams to deliver platforms for autonomous mobility, fleet operations, and MaaS/TaaS while shaping technical strategy and cross-functional execution. Hands-on across backend and DevOps, Eli contributed to Project Magma—an influential open-source platform for building access networks—improving pagination APIs, database configuration, and orchestration settings. His background spans large-scale integrations (Alexa, Uber self-driving), web3 work at Meta, and engineering at fintech startup Butter Payments, showing comfort moving between startup velocity and enterprise rigour. Trained in computer science at Johns Hopkins with executive leadership education from Harvard, he combines deep systems design with people leadership. Notably, he focuses on bridging physical and digital systems, making him adept at operationalizing hardware-software products at scale.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityOrganizational Leadership, Organizational Leadership at Harvard Business School Executive Education
English, French, Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (13)
database-management10
go10
api10
apidoc10
grpc10
magma9
devops9
orchestration9
orchestra9
configuration-management9
5g8
4g8
golang8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
magma/magma
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:77 reviews, 17 commits, 24 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Eli primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase, removing unused elements and dependencies. They were responsible for database configuration and setup changes, specifically removing default database settings and ensuring the use of environment variables. Furthermore, the user contributed to injecting state sync intervals, indicating a focus on system configuration and orchestration within the Magma platform, and also improved the Paginated Enodebs Endpoint and the Paginated Gateways API.
pythonmobileltevagrant5g
mstre123/magma
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Contributions:153 pushes, 21 branches in 8 months
5ginfinibandnetwork-automationnetworking4g
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