Elias Carter
Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolElias Carter is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building highly reliable, data-intensive systems and orchestration platforms, currently ensuring Dropbox runs at 99.95% uptime. He specializes in Linux systems programming and kernel-level troubleshooting—using eBPF/BCC to squeeze performance and diagnose regressions in cgroups, networking, and memory subsystems—while driving platform support for GPU-accelerated AI workloads. His background spans petabyte-scale hybrid cloud design, serverless data APIs, and performance-led optimizations that have delivered 10x speedups and measurable compression gains. A pragmatic technical lead and mentor, he pairs deep low-level expertise with production-focused tooling, static analysis, and security practices to make systems both fast and safe for users. Based in Vancouver, Elias blends research-grade signal-processing experience and a penchant for ergonomic developer tools to solve hard infrastructure problems end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering Coop, 3.7 GPA (4 point scale), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering Coop, 3.7 GPA (4 point scale) at University of Alberta
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Github contributions (5)
edcarter/eliascarter.ca
Jun 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
Capstone2017Winter/Capstone
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:130 commits, 1 PR, 88 pushes in 2 months
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