Eli Torppa
Vice President Of Engineering at Indigov
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Torppa is a Vice President of Engineering with 12 years of experience building secure, reliable, and scalable systems from founding-stage startups to mission-driven public sector tech. Currently leading engineering at Indigov, he has progressed through hands-on roles from senior engineer to executive, shaping product and platform architecture while growing teams. His background includes designing termination-guaranteed domain-specific languages, productionizing audio ML pipelines, and architecting serverless document processing optimized for burst workloads. Eli blends deep technical craftsmanship—spanning Java, Python, Ruby, React, and AWS serverless—with security leadership, having run a private bug bounty and led organization-wide security guilds. Based in San Francisco, he gravitates toward problems at the intersection of security, reliability, scalability, and language design, favoring practical, auditable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-executive who still dives into code to validate architectural tradeoffs.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Senior at The George Washington University
Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (106)
shift10
flask9
mdbook9
rust8
python8
react8
archived8
apollo7
react-component7
parser7
data-visualization7
serverless-plugin7
analytics7
step-functions7
html-email7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
indigov-us/terraform-aws-secure-baseline
Mar 2021 - Sep 2023
Terraform module to set up your AWS account with the secure baseline configuration based on CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations and AWS Foundational Security Best Practices.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
securefoundationssecurityamazonaccount
emattson/browsec
Sep 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 7 months
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