Elias Kassell is a software engineer and serial founder with eight years of experience building data-intensive systems and AI-enabled products. He helped design and scale Google’s Dataform product that processes exabytes/month and contributed meaningful CLI and core improvements to the open-source Dataform framework. Now leading startups in property management automation and system design simulation, he pairs hands-on backend and DevOps skills with product-focused entrepreneurship. His background spans algorithmic trading, genomics QC tooling, and large-scale event/finance operations at university—demonstrating an unusual blend of production engineering, data tooling, and operational rigor. Based in London, Elias couples a First Class Computer Science degree with an MBA, making him equally comfortable shipping code and shaping strategy.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Imperial Business School
A Levels Maths Further Maths Physics Chemistry, A Levels Maths Further Maths Physics Chemistry at Mossbourne Community Academy
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at University of Bristol
Dataform is a framework for managing SQL based data operations in BigQuery
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:3 releases, 304 reviews, 226 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Elias primarily contributed to the Dataform framework by implementing improvements to the command-line interface (CLI), enhancing its functionality and user experience. This included adding exit codes to indicate failure, enabling JSON output for better integration with other tools, and refining the behavior of the file watcher for project changes. Additionally, the user made modifications to the core codebase, addressing issues related to string formatting and ensuring code quality.
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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