Eli Towle
Senior Optimization Engineer
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolEli Towle is a Senior Optimization Engineer with 11 years of experience and a Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in integer programming, stochastic programming, and nonconvex optimization. He builds practical solver improvements and directly supports users at Gurobi, tuning parameters and developing integrations that bridge product, support, and training. Eli has moved between management and hands-on technical roles by choice, demonstrating a bias for deep technical work over purely administrative duties. His academic research produced more compact formulations and branch-and-cut methods for challenging network interdiction and reverse-convex problems, translating theory into measurable solver gains. Comfortable teaching and mentoring, he has led support teams, presented webinars, and previously developed AMPL and Python tooling for industrial scheduling problems. Based in Madison, WI, he combines rigorous theoretical insight with pragmatic implementation to improve solver performance on real-world models.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial & Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBA, Mathematics & German, BA, Mathematics & German at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
German
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Github Skills (14)
playing10
gurobi8
optimization7
constraint6
python6
java6
pandas3
ebay-api2
react2
authentication2
react-library2
rest-api2
sdk1
oauth1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
etowle/1822
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:85 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
Gurobi/gurobipy-stubs
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 year 4 months
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